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Almost no one earns less than $2 a day, Babacan says
Today's Zaman
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Alberta grabs UN well-being index’s top spot in Canada
The Globe and Mail
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Social injustice and environmental risks need to be tackled together – Ban
UN News Centre
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Despite Economic Growth, Food Insecurity Lingers in Africa
IPS News
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UN: African growth depends on food security
The Associated Press
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What does the UN’s first Africa Human Development Report say about food security?
Oxfam Blogs
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Amartya Sen to receive Notre Dame Award for International Human Development and Solidarity
Notre Dame News
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What does the UN’s first Africa Human Development Report say about food security?
Oxfam Blogs
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Democracy correlated with economic growth?
The Economic Times
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The environment’s getting worse, yet humanity’s doing better than ever. What gives?
The Washington Post
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Happiness: Key to Development?
The InterDependent
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2012 Global Human Development Forum
The Botswana Gazette
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Global Human Development Forum adopts ‘Istanbul Declaration’ urging action at ‘Rio+20’
Sierra Express Media
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Urgent Need for "New Deal" in Equality and Sustainability
IPS News
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Looking to Rio+20, world must act on sustainable development, says UN forum
UN News Centre
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Global Human Development Forum Adopts ‘Istanbul Declaration’
Scoop
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Sen, the moral universalist
The Hindu
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Indian Nobel laureate Amartya Sen honoured in US
BBC
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Human development: “Much to celebrate, yet formidable challenges remain”: DEW
Daily FT
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In Focus: Future of Aid
AlertNet
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The economics of well-being: Once-airy talk of replacing GDP with metrics of happiness is gaining credibility in important circles
Today
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The Economics of Well-Being
Harvard Business Review
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Amartya Sen: snakes and ladders
Financial Times Blogs
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Measuring wellbeing is still in the too-hard basket
The Sydney Morning Herald
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World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns
Guardian
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Sustainable equality
The Korea Times
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New Analysis of Global Temperature Record Confirms the World Is Warming
Inside Climate News
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Women and the Arab awakening: Now is the time
The Economist
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Africa - Migration, Inequalities And Human Rights
AllAfrica
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UN Extols HDI Results in Cuba
Radio Cadena Agramonte
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Destacan desempeño cubano en índice desarrollo humano
Prensa Latina
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Bertrand Badie : "ONU-Palestine : Obama est K.O. debout"
Le Monde
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Maathai: World mourns passing of true 'African heroine'
CNN
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Bill Gates backs financial transaction tax to aid poor
Reuters
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MDG targets are overlooking inequality
Guardian: Poverty Matters Blog
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Ban urges global leaders gathered at UN to 'shape the world of tomorrow'
UN News Centre
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The Development Deception
Asia Times
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When Poverty Goals Fail, What Next?
IPS
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Climate change 'threatens human rights'
Irish Times
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Pretty basic: Diplomacy ahead of the UN climate conference in Durban augurs little progress
The Economist
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ECOWAS Urges Member States to Implement Agreed Measures to Mitigate Global Climate Change Impacts
AllAfrica
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UN-NGO forum to focus on sustainable development and volunteerism
UN News Centre
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Problems with measuring poverty
Guardian
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Economy - Open sesame
The Wall Street Journal
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La región más pobre del mundo
ABC Internacional
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Afghanistan’s biggest need: a flourishing economy
The Washington Post
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Bhutan spreads happiness to UN
BBC
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UN chief says sustainable development top priority
AP
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The denialism of the NDR
PoliticsWeb
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UN Report Criticizes India’s Inequalities
The Wall Street Journal
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Whither the post-MDG development agenda?
Guardian Poverty Matters Blog
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How 28 poor countries escaped the poverty trap
Guardian Poverty Matters Blog
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After the party, South Sudan prays for its future
AFP
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UN Women justice report: Legal rights mapped
Guardian Data Blog
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Inequality needs to move up the development agenda
Poverty Matters Blog
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Sanjaya Baru: The geoeconomics of 1991
Business Standard
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Latinoamérica es la región más desigual
LaPrensa
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Rwanda: Regional Meet Discusses Human Development
AllAfrica
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India forces equity back on climate agenda
The Times of India
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Cuba saluda acciones para mejorar Informe Desarrollo Humano
Prensa Latina
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Setting the right goals
The Economic Times
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In Theory: Social progress the yardstick for nations
Gulf News
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World off course on climate; renewables vital
Reuters
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Crecimiento económico y desarrollo humano
La Republica
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The Developing South Holds the Key
Tierramérica
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UN Board Chairman Cites Progress on Carbon Credits Eligibility
Bloomberg
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Gulf nations fare well on Human Development Index
Gulf News
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Talkpoint: How would you measure development progress?
Guardian
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OECD looks to measure the ‘better life’
Financial Times
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USA comes up a bit short in global Better Life Index
USA Today
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Acuerdos para erradicar hambre se quedan en simples discursos
La Primera
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Green Economy Needs Respect for Indigenous Rights
IPS
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The Real Successes of Foreign Aid
The Wall Street Journal
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Reaching out for sustainability
BBC
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Parliamentarians ask G8 to focus on women
Guardian
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The trouble with gender economics
Poverty Matters Blog
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Google incluye el índice de pobreza de los países en su explorador de datos
El Economista
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UN plots human development with Google
Global Post
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Stronger south-south axis opens new chapter for least developed countries
Guardian
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LDC Meet Ends, Blame Game Begins
IPS
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LDC conference: time for new approaches says civil society
Guardian
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Workshop on human development in Mideast kicks off
The Peninsula
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Summit of world's poorest nations opens in Istanbul
AFP
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Rise in climate change disasters
The Independent
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Climate financing stalls as rich nations miss UN deadline
devex
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Goal to halve number of LDCs in next 10 years
Poverty Matters Blog
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Translating Southern Successes Into LDC Solutions
IPS
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The Human Security Index: Potential Roles for the Environmental and Earth Observation Communities
Earthzine
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Food insecurity means few would mourn the death of Doha
Poverty Matters Blog
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India's place in human development dismal, says ex-CJI
The Times of India
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Gallup Surveys The World on Climate Change
PlanetSave
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We should look to Bolivia for inspiration
Poverty Matters Blog
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The Melting Pot That Isn't: Why America Needs Better Immigration
The Atlantic
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Getting Better
Financial Times
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China’s Green Blueprint Raises Stakes at U.N. Climate Talks
IPS
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Urban centers battlefield in climate change
Capital News
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World Development Report: Why no mention of Paris?
Poverty Matters Blog
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In UN Climate Talks, Rich, Poor Nations Can't Find Common Ground
Devex
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World Bank research impact questioned
Bretton Woods Project
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Arguments over agenda stall U.N. climate talks
Reuters
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Fighting poverty with economics
Guardian
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We Are What We Measure
World Policy Institute
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Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
Vanity Fair
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Foreign Policy: Democracy Doesn't Fix Everything
National Public Radio
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Gender inequality is a regional issue
Gulf News
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What will aid look like in 2031?
Poverty Matters Blog
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Does India compare poorly with China on people's well being?
The Economic Times
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Involve People in the Poverty Fight
All Africa
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Hopeful Message About the World’s Poorest
New York Times
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The Case for Happiness- Based Economics
The Atlantic
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Economics and happiness (Part I)
Manilla Bulletin
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The Health of Nations
Freakonomics Radio
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Climate change, food security and sustainable development
Nigerian Compass
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Jomtien +20: focus on education capital
Bangkok Post
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World needs climate justice -- now
Mail & Guardian
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Internal affairs: The gap between many rich and poor regions widened because of the recession
The Economist
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Índice de Desarrollo Humano
Corrientes Opina
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Study: Climate change affects those least responsible
USA Today
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FP Book Club: Charles Kenny's Getting Better
Foreign Policy
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Climate change 'number one issue'
Al Jazeera
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More and more world leaders want happy nations, not just rich ones
The Telegraph
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UN agency publishes first in series of books on ‘green economy’ for development
UN News Centre
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Climate change affecting food safety: researchers warn
Xinhua
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'There Is No Values-Free Form Of Education,' Says U.S. Philosopher
Radio Free Europe
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Human security in Nepal
Republica
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Human Rights and Human Development
Kaieteur News
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Economía verde ¿cómo construir un modelo ecológico?
La Republica
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Amartya Sen: Growth and other concerns
The Hindu
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Reclaiming security to meet poor people's needs
Poverty Matters Blog
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Why development needs to reimagine the future
Poverty Matters Blog (Guardian)
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Poverty's success story
The Washington Post
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Éducation : 4 200 écoles, quid de la qualité ?
L'Express de Madagascar
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Global deal on climate change will be the key
The Financial Times
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Africans see economic gains, democracy losses-index
Reuters
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Whose problem now? Awkward questions about how best to help the poor
The Economist
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GDP and Economic Policy
Council on Foreign Relations
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Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure
Center for International Media Assistance
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If the world is going to hell, why are humans doing so well?
Scientific American
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Al Jazeera's Riz Khan interviews Amartya Sen
Al Jazeera
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The Rise and Fall of the G.D.P.
New York Times
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No link between growth, better life
Times of India
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U.N. to Live or Die by Its Policy Ideas
IPS News
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UN Ideas That Changed the World, Crucial Ideas That Shape the 21st Century
PRWeb
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UNDP Holds Consultation on Citizen’s Engagement on Climate Change and the Global Economic Crisis
Climate-L
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Another Perspective on the Human Development Index
The New York Times - Freakonomics
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Mahbub ul Haq award recipient online lecture on climate change
Institute for Canadian Citizenship
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La crise économique mondiale menace le développement humain
Témoignages
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Putting people before GNP
Business Standard
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