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Sticky Floors, Glass Ceilings and Biased Barriers: the architecture of gender inequality

06 March 2020 | Pedro Conceição, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
Architectural metaphors are a popular way to think about inequality between men and women. When it comes to the fundamentals, we often talk about whether there is a “sticky floor” that is holding women and girls back. And the good news is...Read more

On the Importance of the Science-Policy Interface for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

28 February 2020 | Jacob Assa, Policy Specialist, HDRO
The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set a very ambitious vision for what humanity needs to accomplish by the year 2030. With just 10 years left, the United Nations system has declared a...Read more

Volunteering – an expression of agency in times of polarisation between ‘winners and losers’

08 December 2019 | Christina Lengfelder and Margaret Carroll
Christina Lengfelder is a Research Analyst at the Human Development Report Office (HDRO) at UNDP and Margaret Carroll is a Policy Specialist at United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Unlike mainstream economics, the human development approach...Read more

The rise of self-help – why so popular?

01 October 2019 | Paul Anand, Open University and CPNSS, London School of Economics
In a recent piece of research, I and others looked at impacts of a large-scale self-help program in Northern India. According to one estimate over 80 million women have taken part in such programs in India alone. This huge uptake raises some...Read more

Tipping the Balance

19 September 2019 | Oliver Fiala, Senior Research Adviser at Save the Children UK
Since its inception in 1990, the Human Development Report has turned the spotlight on wider disparities that affect people’s lives, the opportunities they enjoy, and the development prospects of their countries. Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach,...Read more

2019 MPI—Going beyond averages to show subnational disparities

30 July 2019 | HDRO
Disaggregation matters The global MPI highlights inequalities at the global, regional, national and subnational levels. Each layer of analysis yields a new understanding of inequality and provides a far richer picture than the...Read more

Human development and the SDGs

24 June 2019 | Pedro Conceição, Director of the Human Development Report Office at UNDP
UNDP’s Human Development Report turns 30 next year. This is a moment both for celebrating the report’s impact, and for reflecting on how it can continue to help global development in a landscape dominated by the SDGs. “People,” began the...Read more

The earlier the better!

10 June 2019 | Nevena Kulic and Christina Lengfelder
Nevena Kulic is a Researcher at the European University Institute and Christina Lengfelder is a Research Analyst at the Human Development Report Office at UNDP. Education has often been...Read more

How did Europe do on SDG 10.1 - sustaining income growth of the bottom 40%?

23 May 2019 | Thomas Blanchet and Lucas Chancel and Amory Gethin
At the World Inequality Lab, Thomas Blanchet is the Statistical tools and methods coordinator; Lucas Chancel is the Co-Director; and Amory Gethin is a Research Fellow. After a decade of economic...Read more

Measuring inequality in middle-income countries

13 May 2019 | Carlos Gradín and Kunal Sen, UNU-WIDER
Income inequality is the result of complex processes with multiple interacting driving forces but understanding those drivers in emerging economies is particularly difficult because of data and analytical challenges. While most middle-income countries...Read more
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