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Speech of Stefan Löfven, Prime Minister of Sweden at the Global Launch of Human Development Report 2016

22 March 2017 |
I am honoured to be here. A special thanks to Helen Clark and the United Nations Development Programme, who have made this possible, and to Mr Selim Jahan and his Human Development Report Office and team, who once again have given us an inspiring...Read more

HDRO Director, Selim Jahan's speech at the launch of the 2016 Human Development Report

21 March 2017 |
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. Upholding...Read more

Painting by Numbers, From Impressionism to Realism: Indicators for the Information Age

20 October 2016 | Milorad Kovacevic, Chief Statistician and Jon Hall, Policy Specialist at the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
October 20 is World Statistics Day and a good occasion to reflect on the ever growing attention to statistics. Not only does the old adage “if you cannot measure it you cannot manage it” hold true, but increasingly we suspect that if “you do not...Read more

Fighting Human Slavery: Why the Private Sector Should Care

21 September 2016 | Mathew Friedman, CEO The Mekong Club
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....Read more

Working towards the Elimination of Child Labour

12 June 2016 | HDRO. Interview with Kailash Satyarthi, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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? When I started in 1981, there was complete ignorance about this serious...Read more

From War to Work

09 June 2016 | Frances Stewart, Professor Emeritus of Development economics at the University of Oxford.
There is no denying that conflict has far-reaching negative effects, including on employment. But the prevailing understanding of the relationship between conflict and employment does not fully recognize the complexity of this relationship – a...Read more

Measuring Human Development in the Future

01 June 2016 | Selim Jahan, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
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...Read more

Creative work

03 May 2016 | Orhan Pamuk. Novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature
There is a charming anecdote about the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. According to the version our mathematics teacher in Istanbul told us, a class of high school students in Germany was misbehaving (much like we were), and to punish them...Read more

Community participation for improving rural livelihoods— lessons from the past

26 April 2016 | Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka
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...Read more

Human Development – the Way Ahead

19 April 2016 | Selim Jahan, Director of the Human Development Report Office at UNDP
The 2016 Human Development Report (HDR) will be the 25th edition. Over the last quarter of a century, these reports have extensively influenced the development discourse, provided a strong lens to...Read more
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