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Human Development Report 2009 (Chinese edition)
Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development
- Cover [605 KB]
- Foreword, Acknowledgments and Contents [1,102 KB]
- Overview - Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development [1,010 KB]
- Chapter 1 - Freedom and movement: how mobility can foster human development [2,239 KB]
- Chapter 2 - People in motion: who moves where, when and why [5,497 KB]
- Chapter 3 - How movers fare [4,513 KB]
- Chapter 4 - Impacts at origin and destination [4,782 KB]
- Chapter 5 - Policies to enhance human development outcomes [3,714 KB]
- Notes, Bibliographical notes, Bibliography [6,022 KB]
- Background research [295 KB]
- Human Development Indicators 1 [15,311 KB]
- Human Development Indicators 2 [14,754 KB]
- Readers guide [2,317 KB]
- Errata [70 KB]
- HDR 2009 Statistical Tables [1.540 KB]
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