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20 October 2015
On 14 December, 2015, H.E. Hailemariam Desalegn, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, UNDP Administrator, Helen Clark and I shall launch the 2015 Human Development Report entitled Work for Human Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Following this launch, there will be a number of events around the world, presenting the...
19 October 2015
OSLO – In the early 1990s, when I was Prime Minister of Norway, I once found myself debating sustainable development with an opposition leader who insisted that I tell him the government’s single most important priority in that field. Frustrated, I replied that what he was asking was impossible to answer. I concluded our exchange by explaining why...
12 August 2015
El 12 de agosto es el Día Internacional de la Juventud, que en 2015 se centró en la participación cívica, porque “el compromiso y la participación de la juventud son esenciales para alcanzar un desarrollo humano sostenible. Aun así, a veces las oportunidades para que los jóvenes se comprometan política, económica y socialmente, son escasas o...
12 August 2015
August 12 marks International Youth Day, which in 2015 focuses on civic engagement, because the “engagement and participation of youth is essential to achieve sustainable human development. Yet often the opportunities for youth to engage politically, economically and socially are low or non-existent.”[i] Nonetheless, the development of a number of...
23 July 2015
Todas las sociedades tienen personas dependientes a quien cuidar (menores, adultos mayores y personas con discapacidad) y personas que cuidan. La capacidad para resolver las necesidades de cuidado es crítica para el bienestar de la sociedad. Si bien existen diferentes maneras de organizar la provisión de cuidado, aún hoy en día esta labor sigue...
23 July 2015
All societies have people to care for and care-givers. An ability to meet care needs is critical to national well-being. Although there are different ways of organizing care activities, most of them are still undertaken by family members, mostly women and girls whose labor is usually unpaid.
In Argentina, a country which has made remarkable...
15 July 2015
Deep shifts in economies, societies and the environment are changing the way citizens worldwide live, work and interact.[1] These changes also affect the public sector, which in 2013 employed over 110 million people worldwide.[2] Although much of the thinking on how public services could evolve has been done in the advanced economies of the West[3...