Occasional Papers

Sharing the journey: the way ahead for human development and human security frameworks

By: Oscar A. Gómez, Ako Muto and Sachiko G. Kamidohzono
2016
As an intellectual offspring of human development ideas and practice, the evolution of the human security concept can offer some insights about how to rethink human development in the post-2015 era. This view originates from human security’s focus on a...Read more

Global Green Growth for Human Development

By: Robert Pollin
2016
The world is not on track to achieve climate stabilization: a global mean temperature between 1.50C to 20C above pre-industrial levels no later than 2100—the goal of the Paris Agreement. The paper illustrates the opportunities and challenges posed by the...Read more

The Capability Approach and Human Development: Some Reflections

By: S. R. Osmani
2016
The human development discourse is conceptually underpinned by the capability approach. As such, a number of doubts and misgivings that have emerged over time regarding the capability approach has also caused a renewed soul-searching over the conceptual...Read more

Global Governance and Growth for Human Development

By: Stephany Griffith-Jones
2016
This paper analyses policies to enhance inclusive growth and human development through two key institutional dimensions: the articulation of multilateral, regional and national development banks, and the coordination of fiscal and monetary policies at...Read more

Peace Work: Labour Markets, Work and Violence

By: Christopher Cramer
2015
Violence in its many forms—physical, psychological, structural—has profound and complex effects on socioeconomic development. If human development is regarded as the expansion of freedoms, then violence has pervasive restricting impacts on these that go...Read more

Work and Human Development in a Deindustrializing World

By: Dani Rodrik
2015
Work is mostly unpleasant. Doing lots of unpleasant work is how countries get rich. And being rich is how more people get to do pleasant work. That pretty much sums up economic history from the perspective of ‘work for human development’.Read more

Population, Labour Force and Unemployment: Implications for the Creation of (Decent) Jobs, 1990-2030

By: David E. Bloom and Mathew J. McKenna
2015
We estimate that 734 million jobs will be required globally between 2010 and 2030 to accommodate recent and ongoing demographic shifts, account for plausible changes in labour force participation rates, and achieve target unemployment rates of at or...Read more

Employment in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations

By: Frances Stewart
2015
There is a common view that unemployment is a critical factor leading to conflict; that employment is a casualty of conflict; and that therefore the creation of jobs should be a priority in post-conflict situations. This is in order to make the...Read more

Gender Equality in Human Development – Measurement Revisited

By: Hsu, Yu-Chieh; Kovacevic, Milorad
2015
Gender equality and women’s empowerment are integral to human development. Since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995, considerable progress has been made, yet in the mean while along with existing shortfalls, new and extensive...Read more

Time Use Across the World: Findings of a World Compilation of Time Use Surveys

By: Jacques Charmes
2015
This paper is based on 102 time use surveys carried out in 65 countries. Reports of the surveys were mostly found on the websites of national statistical agencies or other official institutions. Access to micro-data was not necessary. Survey data have...Read more