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New data challenges traditional notions of rich and poor

10 July 2019 | UNDP and OPHI
Click here for FRENCH and SPANISH Of the 1.3 billion people who are multidimensionally poor, more...Read more

Announcement: New data challenges traditional notions of where poor people live and how they experience poverty and inequality

05 July 2019 | HDRO
The 2019 global MPI, to be released on 11 July 2019, will shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, revealing vast inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves. By...Read more

Podcast on Tackling Inequalities

13 June 2019 | HDRO
The goal of reducing inequalities is enshrined in the 2030 Agenda and its central pledge of leaving no one behind, which recognizes the need for inclusion and empowerment of the most vulnerable. ...Read more

If we conceive development as freedom, inequality is imprisonment

10 April 2019 | HDRO
Inequality is a defining challenge of our time. But what does it really look like? Do we have the right measures of inequality? And what might this mean for societies worldwide for the rest of the 21st Century? On 29 March 2019, the Human...Read more

2019 Human Development Report to focus on inequality

21 March 2019 | HDRO
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Data for Human Development – looking ahead to the 2019 Human Development Report and beyond

15 March 2019 | HDRO
The Human Development Report Office (HDRO) convened two important statistical meetings this past week to discuss human development indices and indicators. Both meetings come at a crucial time as HDRO embarks on a major effort to re-articulate the...Read more

Half of world’s poor are children

20 September 2018 | UNDP and OPHI
The 2018 Multidimensional Poverty Index provides the most comprehensive view of the many ways in which 1.3 billion people worldwide experience poverty in their daily life. New York, 20 September 2018 - Half of all people...Read more

Wide inequalities in people’s well-being cast a shadow on sustained human development progress

14 September 2018 | HDRO
According to the latest Human Development Index, people living in the very high human development countries can expect to live 19 years longer, and spend seven more years in school, than those living in the group of low human development countries...Read more

Selim Jahan, HDRO Director, interview with Bill Miller on GCTV

14 June 2018 | HDRO
In an interview with Bill Miller from Global Connections Television, HDRO Director Selim Jahan spoke about the human development approach, and provided an overview of the most recently published Human Development Reports. Stressing the idea that human...Read more

How to strengthen the usefulness of time use surveys for policymaking

12 June 2018 | HDRO
Time use surveys — collecting statistics about how people spend their time — are increasingly being used to inform development agendas in developing countries, a report from the United Nations Foundation's Data2X initiative finds. Gayatri Koolwal, a...Read more
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