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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

Interview with Selim Jahan, HDRO Director: History of human development indices and future of the HDR

11 May 2018 | HDRO
The number of composite indices that are constructed and used internationally is growing very fast; but whilst the complexity of quantitative techniques has increased dramatically, the education and training in this area have been dragging and lagging...Read more

Recasting Human Development measures – Expert Group Meeting

13 March 2018 | HDRO
The Human Development Report Office (HDRO) convened 12 international experts from academia and research institutes in New York on 12-13 February 2018 for a two-day meeting...Read more

Human development for everyone: beyond averages

08 September 2017 | Selim Jahan, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
Selim Jahan's, HDRO Director, keynote speech at the Annual Conference of the Human Development and Capability Association in Cape Town, South Africa . Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Let me start with a simple statement:...Read more

Announcing the rollout of new HDRO website

29 August 2017 | Selim Jahan, Director of the Human Development Report Office
I am pleased to announce changes to HDRO’s visibility online with the rollout of a revamped website. Last year HDRO set out a new web and digital strategy with the objective to diversify our digital products and services, and reach wider...Read more
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Human Development Report 2016 ‘Human Development for Everyone’ to Launch 21 March 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden

19 March 2017 |
The Human Development Report 2016 ‘Human Development for Everyone’ will be launched on 21 March in Stockholm with the Prime Minister of Sweden, Stefan Löfven; United Nations Development Programme Administrator, Helen Clark; and the...Read more
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