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Sunrise

Searching for a Happy New Year

07 January 2015 | Jon Hall and John Helliwell
We start by wishing readers a Happy New Year. We continue by asking you to reflect on what this means. Because happiness can be different things to different people. In our paper...Read more
War-Peace

Human Security – Twenty Years On

16 December 2014 | Des Gasper and Oscar A. Gómez
Insecurity is inherent to human life. And this world of insecurities is full of incoherence: during the most intense part of the war in Iraq after 2003, many more people died from tobacco than from bombs. The most important shocks for people in...Read more
Disability

Disability and Vulnerability

03 December 2014 | Stephen Hawking
As a theoretical physicist I understand very well the concept of vulnerability: there is little in the cosmos that is not susceptible to harm. Even the very universe itself may someday come to an end. Humanity has always been vulnerable to...Read more
Data Revolution

The Data Revolution for Human Development

07 November 2014 | Selim Jahan
A World That Counts, the report by the UN Secretary General’s Data Revolution Group, was released yesterday. And it might come as no surprise that the report has strong links with UNDP’s Human...Read more
Bread

GDP (Gathering Different Preferences) - Old acronym, a fresh interpretation?

04 November 2014 | Lin Yang
Imagine for a moment that you are a baker. Now what would be on your list of essentials for an ultimate, everyday bread recipe? Flour would probably be at the top of your list. A liquid, to act as a binding agent. And heat. Let us stop there...Read more
Big Data

You Say You want a Revolution

07 October 2014 | Enrico Giovannini and Eva Jespersen
Last year the United Nations Secretary General’s High Level Panel Report on the Post-2015 Development Agenda called for a “data revolution”. “You say you want a revolution” sang John Lennon. “...Read more
Brundtland

An Outstanding Contribution to Human Development

02 October 2014 | Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland
Last week I was delighted to receive UNDP’s Mahbub Ul Haq Award for Outstanding Contribution to Human Development. Not only was this an honour, it was also a welcome opportunity for me to reflect on the past 25 years of human development...Read more
Lightning

Trans-border Vulnerabilities

02 September 2014 | Khalil Hamdani
“Clear skies with intermittent thunder and lighting” is an odd forecast but an apt description of the larger world we live in. In whatever sunny place you are, you have likely been affected at some point, to some degree, by dark occurrences in far...Read more

Violence against women and girls: a challenge for sustainable human development

15 August 2014 | Naila Kabeer
Men are far more likely to die a violent death than women, so why single out violence against women and girls as a challenge for sustainable human development? There are a number of compelling reasons. First of all, deaths related to...Read more
Social Protection

Tackling human vulnerabilities, changing investment, policies and social norms

31 July 2014 | Khalid Malik
As successive Human Development Reports have shown, most people in most countries are doing better in human development. Globalization, advances in technology and higher incomes all hold promise for longer, healthier, more secure lives. But there is...Read more
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