HDialogue

Human Development is about putting people at the center

| Winnie Byanyima, International Executive Director, Oxfam
It is an opportune moment to reflect on the importance of the first Human Development Report, twenty-five years ago. Human Development appeared as a concept in the midst of intense debates that were challenging both GDP growth as a measure of...Read more

Human Development Report – a personal intellectual journey

| Selim Jahan, Director of the Human Development Report Office
'It is an intellectual enterprise' as Mahbub ul Haq, a fan of the Star Trek, would fondly refer to the Human Development Report – his brainchild, and sure, he was the captain of the enterprise. Needless to say, Amartya Sen in many ways was the...Read more
Work

2015 Human Development Report – Rethinking Work for Human Development

| Selim Jahan, Director of the Human Development Report Office
From a human development perspective, work, rather than jobs or employment is the relevant concept. A job is a narrow concept with a set of pre-determined time-bound assigned tasks or activities, in an input-output framework...Read more

25 Years of Human Development, an African Perspective

| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
We note with passion that as the 2015 deadline approaches, Africa’s progress on the Millennium Development Goals remains uneven.Remarkable advances have been made in areas of human development, such as net primary school enrollment, gender parity in...Read more