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2009 Global NHDR Teams Meeting
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Previous editions of HD Insights

August 2009 - Adjusting national statistics for inequity
Jan Vandemoortele, Former UN staff member and co-architect of the MDGs

March 2009 - Sen's capability approach in designing and implementing poverty reduction programmes: Promoting successful local application through focus groups
Dr John Schischka, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology

January 2009 - Development Ethics and Human Development
Des Gasper, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague

December 2008 - Environment, Justice, and Human Development
Breena Holland, Political Science & the Environmental Initiative, Lehigh University

November 2008 - Human Rights and the Stage of Development
Wulf Gaertner, University of Osnabrück

September 2008 - Growing Inclusive Markets: A Permanent Way out of Poverty?
Ron Mendoza, Namsuk Kim and Nina Thelen, UNDP Office of Development Studies

August 2008 - Tackling Corruption for Human Development
Anuradha Rajivan, Team Leader, Asia Pacific Human Development Report on Corruption

April 2008 - Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Private Partnerships and Human Development
Peter Utting, Deputy Director, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

March 2008 - Decentralisation and Human Development
Tim Scott, HDRO – Human Development Report Office

February 2008 - Human Security
Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, Director, Program for Peace and Human Security, CERI/ Sciences Po, Paris, France

January 2008 - Social Inclusion and Human Development
Susanne Milcher and Andrey Ivanov, UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre

December 2007 - The Effects of Climate-Related Disasters on Human Development
Ricardo Fuentes and Papa Seck, Human Development Report Office, UNDP

November 2007 - The Missing Dimensions of Poverty
Sabina Alkire and Emma Samman, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative

October 2007 - Operationalising Human Development: A Programmatic Approach
K. Seeta Prabhu, UNDP India

September 2007 - What does a human development approach say about democracy?
Séverine Deneulin, Dept. of Economics and International Development, University of Bath, UK

August 2007 - Human Development and Global Public Goods: Why They Go-and Must Come-Together
Inge Kaul, Independent Consultant(former Director, Office of Development Studies (UNDP), and the Human Development Report Office (UNDP))

July 2007 - Extreme Poverty Statistics
Thomas Pogge, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

June 2007 - Risk, Vulnerability and Human Development
Stefan Dercon, Professor of Development Economics, Oxford University

May 2007 - Evaluating the NHDR System
Carl Riskin, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Queens College, CUNY

April 2007 - 'Human Rights Based Approach to Development - Is it Rhetorical Repackaging or a New Paradigm?'
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor of International Affairs, The New School, New York / Director of HDRs 1995-2004

March 2007 - Causal Chain between Human Development and Economic Growth
Gustav Ranis, Department of Economics, Yale University

February 2007 - How does Conflict undermine Human Development?
Frances Stewart, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford

January 2007 - What is the International Comparison Program (ICP)?
Yuri Dikhanov, Economist, World Bank

December 2006 - A Guide to Literacy Data - National and International Comparisons
Simon Ellis, Head of Science Culture & Communications Institute for Statistics

November 2006 - Measuring Gender Inequality and its Impact on Human Development: The debate about the GDI and GEM
Stephan Klasen, Professor of Economics, University of Göttingen

October 2006 - Do Standards and discrepancies in data sources matter?
Tom Griffin, Senior Statistical Advisor, HDRO/UNDP