This document – Malaysia’s first Human Development Report – elects Inclusive Growth as its theme.

The Report examines traditional socio-economic indicators, from poverty and unemployment to health and education, from the perspective of social inclusion.

The main theme of the Russian Federation's fourth NHDR is regional and social inequality regarding human development.

The Azerbaijan report of 1998 focuses on the country's progress toward social cohesion and the factors influencing this process. It provides an updated calculation of Azerbaijan's Human Development Index (HDI) and discusses variation in the HDI over time and across sectors.

The new report , ' Learning to Live Together, ' examines how Costa Rican society is in building community life - in ' the construction of us ' - and examines how people see others and how is related to the other members of society.

The theme of the Report 1997 is social cohesion and human development. Social cohesion is an elusive concept; it is easier to recognize it by its absence than to define.