Reports
The Report studies poverty from a human development perspective. The analysis is mainly based on information obtained from the Social Survey 1998 (ENSO 98). The Report highlights the alarming growth and intensification of poverty in Venezuela over the past few decades, and the imbalance between this and the resources made available, particularly when compared to other countries with fewer resources. The Report finds that two out of every 10 households living in extreme poverty have at least one child who has not had compulsory vaccinations, while 44% of all children are excluded from school. Furthermore, only 55% of all households have daily access to safe water pipe-line supplies and 27% of all households do not have access to proper sewage facilities. The Report presents a set of recommendations to improve living conditions in Venezuela and to eliminate poverty such as policies oriented towards incorporating poor women into the manufacturing sector and efforts to reduce teenage pregnancy and to improve family planning services.
Leveraging its analysis on the fundamental goal of the Human Development, the report seeks to ensure that “peoples choices are enlarged and that they can exercise these choices to enjoy long, healthy, and creative lives.” The report succinctly illustrates how young adults are experiencing “diminished” not “enlarged” choices of social and economic advancement. Amid an economy that is thus far “sound” and increasingly reliant on services and petroleum sectors, it is clear that Trinidad and Tobago must invest in developing their largest “human capital” in order to achieve sustainable long term social and economic development.
The report addresses the relationship between the equality and economic vulnerability of the country. While looking at various aspects of this relationship, the report presents the situation of the country in terms of opportunities and existing gaps for the creation of capacities and the enjoyment of higher degrees of well-being. The report had wide outreach and outcome, and among others was used as a teaching material in schools and in academic curriculum in universities.
Este Informe procura hacer un análisis de posibilidades y limitaciones de la sociedad hondureña para hacer crecer su economía y que ésta signifique una sólida base del despliegue de las oportunidades y el bienestar para todos. Con ese fin, analiza los avances en desarrollo humano, el peso de la pobreza en la carencia de oportunidades, el potencial de crecimiento de la economía, la base y sostenibilidad de los recursos naturales con que cuenta, la educación como factor esencial para el aumento de la productividad y la erradicación de la pobreza y la necesidad de fortalecer las instituciones para el crecimiento económico y la acumulación del capital social.
