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Rethinking Human Development
HDRO Conference Room
6 October 2008
Time: 2:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Topic
It has been nearly twenty years since the launch of the first global Human Development Report. What has changed in the world since the first HDR? What have been some of the high points and low points of the Reports, and what lessons can we learn from them? What are the comparative advantages of the HD approach for addressing the new challenges of the next twenty years in terms of concepts, measurement, policy and advocacy?
About the Speaker
Frances Stewart is a Professor of Development Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at Queen ElizabethHouse, Oxford University. She is author, coauthor or editor of 26 books and of over 200 articles and book chapters. Her most recent book (with others) is Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies, Palgrave 2008. Her research interests include human development, inequality and conflict. She was part of the team that advised Mahbub ul Haq on the first Human Development Reports.
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