Let me start with a simple statement: every human being counts and every human life is equally valuable. That universalism is at the core of the human development concept and is the driving force behind the 2016 Human Development Report.
HDialogue
21 March 2017 |
20 October 2016 |
October 20 is World Statistics Day and a good occasion to reflect on the ever growing attention to statistics.
21 September 2016 |
Human trafficking, which represents the recruitment, transport, receipt and harboring of people for the purpose of exploiting their labor, affects almost all parts of the world and it is having a negative impact on human development progress.
12 June 2016 |
How has the world of child labour changed since you first got involved in the field? What are some of the positive changes and some of the less positive ones?
09 June 2016 |
There is no denying that conflict has far-reaching negative effects, including on employment.
01 June 2016 |
Each year, the Human Development Index (HDI), the signature index of the Human Development Reports (HDR), captures headlines across the globe, as countries track their progress in education, health and income.
03 May 2016 |
There is a charming anecdote about the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.
26 April 2016 |
Centuries of irrigated agriculture and rice farming have been embedded in Sri Lanka’s cultural traditions, enriching the lives of her people in all aspects. The relevance of these traditional occupations to the demands of a modern economy has to be defined now.
19 April 2016 |
The 2016 Human Development Report (HDR) will be the 25th edition.
14 April 2016 |
Reducing the risk of climate change requires large and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, most of which are caused by the burning of fossil energy sources (1).