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Blockchain technology for human development: Not so fast?

02 May 2018 | Shivani Nayyar, Research Specialist at the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
On February 6th, a Forbes list identified the 10 richest “Bitcoin billionaires”. By the time the list went online, most on the list were not billionaires anymore. While cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin being the best known, have recently caught...Read more

Closing gender gaps throughout the life course

07 March 2018 | Astra Bonini and Yu Chieh Hsu, Policy Specialist and Statistics Analyst at the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
Our choices and opportunities, from childhood to older-age, accumulate over the life course. Breaking patterns of inequality requires us to consider the full cycle of life and identify critical intervention periods and cumulative deprivations....Read more

Assessing multidimensional poverty – one index at the global level

27 February 2018 | Sabina Alkire and Selim Jahan
Sabina Alkire is the Director of OPHI and Selim Jahan is the Director of HDRO, UNDP Poverty is multidimensional and goes beyond income deprivations. The measurement of multidimensional poverty serves as a complement to traditional...Read more

Evidence-based Human Development: Measuring the opportunity cost of teenage pregnancy in the Dominican Republic

13 February 2018 | Melisa Bretón, Programme Officer Sustainable Human Development, UNDP Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a fast-growing economy with an average growth rate of around 5%, above the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) average of 2% over the last 10 years. In 2014 it moved up in human development category, from medium to high human...Read more

Implementing the Madrid Plan of Action on Ageing: What have we learned? And, where do we go from here?

29 January 2018 | Asghar Zaidi, Professor of International Social Policy, University of Southampton
It is no secret that the world’s population is ageing. As fertility declines and life expectancy increases, the proportion of older people is projected to grow across the world. Therefore, it is increasingly important to develop metrics that assess...Read more

Leveling the playing field: Human development and sports

28 November 2017 | Andréa Bolzon, Coordinator of the National Human Development Report, UNDP Brazil
There is a positive relationship between human development and practicing physical sports. Exercise is associated with improvements in health, cognitive processes, sociability, productivity (due to better physical and mental health) and quality of...Read more

Violence against women: Unacceptable and unmeasured

22 November 2017 | Yu-Chieh Hsu, Statistics Analyst, and Milorad Kovacevic, Chief Statistician, at the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
One third of women—and more than two-thirds in some countries—have experienced physical or sexual violence inflicted by an intimate partner or sexual violence inflicted by a non-partner, according to the World Health Organization. Violence...Read more

Biodiversity and human development: Letting Mother Nature do her job

07 November 2017 | Jon Hall, Policy Specialist at the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
One of the greatest strengths of the human development approach is its emphasis on viewing the world – and people’s lives – as complex, interconnected systems in which, to paraphrase the former Norwegian Prime Minister and Sustainable Development...Read more

New hope through youth

31 October 2017 | HOPE XXL
Human development is about everyone’s future. But no one should have a greater interest in that future than the world’s young people because the future will shape so much more of their lives than older age groups. And yet, in most countries, young...Read more

Human security and natural disasters

16 October 2017 | Christelle Cazabat, Research Analyst at the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
The last few months have seen many natural disasters across the world, raising global attention on disaster risk reduction. In August, unusually heavy rainfalls flooded South Asia, killing over 1,200 people and displacing at least 2.5 million in...Read more
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