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General Human Development Report

The report addresses three of the country’s highest priority problems: improving habitat, alleviating poverty and reducing crime. The report finds that to successfully resolve these problems, the economic situation and the degree of public support of reform are crucial. It thus describes in some detail the process of implementing economic reforms and the influence of society on socio-political change. It goes on to look at the effects of democratization on human development and reveals the ...

Kyrgyzstan - 1996

Habitat

Human Development Report 1995: lessons and continuity. Lithuania's first ever Human Development Report (HDR) was published in 1995. Applying UNDP's global human development concept at a national level, it examined Lithuania's human development from the widest possible perspective. This approach had advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, critics considered it too descriptive and overloaded with statistics. On the other hand, the report provided a detailed situation analysis...

Lithuania - 1996

General Human Development Report

This National Human Development Report for the Republic of Moldova reflects the changes and the problems of human development during the past years, including 1995. The process of profound political, economic and social mutations demonstrate that Moldova has irreversibly started down the path to democracy, transition to a market economy and integration into the international community. The transition stage has revealed new horizons for capitalizing resources and human potential and for integr...

Moldova - 1996

General Human Development Report

The Report describes the inherited structures and policies from the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, which it argues are proclaimed, but not factually compatible with the goals of human development, but whose mechanisms and financing requirements proved to make them unsustainable. It discusses the major damage caused to the economy by the period of civil war, and the vast cost in terms of the fall in GDP, unemployment, loss of incomes, housing, and general trauma for the po...

Serbia - 1996

Human Development Report
Habitat and the Living Conditions of the Population

The focus of this report, in addition to the presentation of information on standard of living, social development and the economy, is on "habitat", which, for the purposes of this report, means the interaction of the individual with others and with his/her immediate surroundings. This orientation is appropriate since human settlements is the theme of the last major world summit, Habitat II, sponsored by the United Nations. For this reason, much information provided in this year's...

Tajikistan - 1996

Human Settlements and Eradication of Poverty

The Report for Turkey explores key problems of national and local development in Turkey with special focus on urban management and on the eradication of poverty. It provides an overall assessment of the country’s human development performance and offers an analysis of Turkey’s comparative standing vis-à-vis other countries, and within the country through disaggregated analyses of data for regions, provinces and for gender. In-depth analyses and critique of the key components of the human dev...

Turkey - 1996

Correlation Between Ecology and Economic Growth

The report reviews a number of questions regarding the human, social and economic development of Turkmenistan, and analyzes the economic conditions necessary for social progress. It describes the substantial changes carried out in its five years of independence, and the advances made in education, health care and social protection. An analysis of the conditions of the principal productive sectors, namely industry, agriculture and transport, are followed by a review of the potential of the cou...

Turkmenistan - 1996

Relationships Between Economic Growth and Human Development

The 1996 Human Development Report examines basic relationships between economic growth and human development. To do this, it assesses the conduct of market reforms which contribute to human development, identifies problems and challenges in the rural areas, outlines the emerging issues of habitat discusses the reforms required to strengthen the social infrastructure of health and education, and analyses poverty and its different dimensions. The Report represents an attempt to initiate dialogu...

Uzbekistan - 1996

Human Development in Chile: Decentralization

The main focus of the report is the decentralization process in Chile and its implications for the geographic equity of human development. The authors note a strong inequality among the Chilean regions and municipalities. A suggested solution is to further strengthen the decentralization process. The human development index was calculated for each of the 13 regions of the country and for the municipalities. In addition, a special ‘competitiveness index’ was designed and calculated for eac...

Chile - 1996

General Human Development Report

The 1996 Guyana NHDR looks into the population, geography, natural resource and environmental context in Guyana. Data on Guyana’s HDI and ranking are reviewed, and the three components of the HDI are examined.

Guyana - 1996