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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
Tai-Chi

Changing the way we age: Reducing vulnerability and promoting resilience in old age

08 July 2014 | Asghar Zaidi
While our lives are all different, we share stages of life that are common to all of us. Rowntree was amongst the first to formalise the concept of the life cycle of poverty, and its economic and social challenges, from early childhood (when economic...Read more
Butterfly

Promoting sustainable resilience: Addressing the macro-risks of vulnerability

17 June 2014 | Inge Kaul
‘Vulnerability’ and ‘resilience’ are among the new catch-words of the international community. These vulnerabilities range from the vulnerability of supply chains to the vulnerability of communities and people; and the proposed policy responses –...Read more
Mary Young Blog

The case for investing in early childhood

03 June 2014 | Mary Young
Children who are born poor, live in unsanitary conditions, receive little mental stimulation or nurturing, and have poor nutrition in their first years are far more likely than their richer peers to grow up stunted in body and mind. These children...Read more
Apple by Michal Jarmoluk

Social Values, Employment and Human Development: beyond economic utilitarianism

20 May 2014 | Andrew Fischer
After years of neglect, the theme of employment has returned to the forefront of the international development agenda, following on the heels of the global financial crisis and its aftermath. Prominent examples include recent reports by...Read more
Photo by Ashtyn Renee

What’s the Problem? Youth and Vulnerability in a Global Perspective

07 May 2014 | Abby Hardgrove
More often than not, youth come to our attention as a result of their association with crisis—be it a crisis of unemployment, of involvement in...Read more
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