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Measuring development progress beyond income: celebrating the 30 years of HDI

20 October 2020 | Yanchun Zhang, Chief Statistician, UNDP
This year’s World Statistics Day celebration has an added significance for UNDP: 2020 also marks the 30th Anniversary of the first Human Development Report (HDR) and its key measure of well-being, the Human...Read more

Nature and well-being: The foundations of human development

24 September 2020 | Tasneem Mirza, Policy Specialist, HDRO; and Steven Stone, Chief of Resources and Markets Branch, UNEP
Human life is facing new, unprecedented challenges. From devastating cyclones to a nearly invisible virus, our lives are shaped by nature in profound ways. The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a spotlight on the relationship between people and planet, and...Read more

A Dashboard Overview: Gender inequality and the COVID-19 crisis

13 July 2020 | Carolina Rivera, Research Analyst, HDRO; Yu-Chieh Hsu, Statistics Analyst, HDRO, Fernanda Pavez Esbry, Research Consultant, HDRO; Esuna Dugarova, Gender Team, UNDP
Click here for Spanish and French. The human development crisis unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic is putting the...Read more

How COVID-19 is changing the world: a statistical perspective

15 May 2020 | Milorad Kovacevic and Admir Jahic, HDRO
The newly released report by the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) of the UN system and supranational organizations, brings a snapshot of data and statistics on how COVID-19...Read more

Tracking attitudes on gender equality

06 April 2020 | Carolina Rivera, Policy Analyst, HDRO
Gender inequalities are rooted in traditional discriminatory social norms and power imbalances that are perpetuated throughout the life cycle and passed from one generation to another. These norms restrict women’s behaviour and the prospects of...Read more

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
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