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Pakistan National Human Development Report 2003 Poverty, Growth And Governance This is the first National Human Development Report 2003 for Pakistan. The report examines new questions such as: How do distorted markets for goods and services result in the loss of income for the poor? How do local structures of power (landlords, local officials, etc…) deprive the poor of their income and assets? The report examines the challenges and pitfalls of implementing decentralization reforms and articulates a multi-pronged strategy for overcoming poverty, based on an anal... Pakistan - 2003 |
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Community Empowerment and Human Development This report, Thailand’s second NHDR focuses on community empowerment as a means to human development, uniting the idea of human development and the commitment to human rights. This approach makes development into a right that people can claim, (rather than a gift bestowed by others), which in turn empowers people. The Report calculates the HDI for Thailand, disaggregated by province to reveal a striking pattern. The Report contains the vision of community leaders who are local people... Thailand - 2003 |
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ICT for Development The Azerbaijan NHDR report of 2003 deals with the role of Information and New Technologies in Human Development. This builds on the Azerbaijani President's recent approval of a National ICT Strategy. The NHDR analyzes a small-scale survey on how introduction of ICT affects people's lives. It also benefits from the collaboration of the two country offices in the review process. Azerbaijan - 2003 |
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Human Capacity of Belarus: Economic Challenges & Social Responses In an attempt to allow enough time to examine the major socio-economic transformations in Belarus, the launch of the country’s seventh report comes after a three-year pause in the production of NHDRs. This 2003 report focuses on the human capacity of Belarus and explores how globalisation has affected and will continue to affect Belarus’ geopolitical potential. Much attention is given to the analysis of modern economic conditions, the identification of key economic development p... Belarus - 2003 |
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Millenium Development Goals "Where will I be in 2015" is the slogan that has been chosen for the promotion of this year’s NHDR that is focused on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that all countries have committed to achieve by 2015. The set of universal MDGs with its targets tailored to BiH provide a golden opportunity for the country and its citizens to discuss where the country and its people want to be i2015 and how they want to live in the context of the all-important challenge of Europe. Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2003 |
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Rural Regions: Overcoming Development Disparities Lagging rural regions pose a limitation to human development in Bulgaria, argues the National Human Development Report 2003 – “Rural Regions: Overcoming Development Disparities” . One third of all Bulgaria’s population lives in rural regions under conditions of more poverty, higher unemployment and poorer healthcare standards. What policies could improve life for those people? The report underlines the need for decentralizing government institutions and their policies ... Bulgaria - 2003 |
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Where do we come from, what are we and where are we going? The Czech National Human Development Report, prepared by the Center for Social and Economic Strategies of Charles University in Prague, focuses on identifying the most important problems of human develoment in the Czech Republic and formulating priorities and possible methods for their solution. The solutions to those problems and the debate surrounding them will help to successfully incorporate the Czech Republic into the main stream of European civilization and prepare them to face challen... Czech Republic - 2003 |
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Water as a Key Factor of Human Development in Kazakstan The NHDR 2003 provides a comprehensive analysis of the water situation in Kazakhstan and will serve as a foundation of Government as well as NGOs and private sector's actions. Regional development studies and MDGRs have revealed that water plays a key role in Kazakhstan's human development. As 55% of national water needs are satisfied by rivers crossing Kazakhstan and its neighboring nations, water may affect not only the country's internal security but also the overall economic development o... Kazakhstan - 2003 |
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Human Security and Human Development The NHDR 2003 focusses on defining Human Security in Latvia. As a result of Latvia's transition from the Soviet occupation to a market economy after its independence, the people of Latvia has experienced substantive changes in their lives in the past ten years. These changes have come with increased economic and social distress, which has led to a pervasive feeling of insecurity. In addition, Latvia is now willing to join the European Union, which entails even more change. The goal of t... Latvia - 2003 |
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Lithuanian Human Development Report 2003 Knowledge, information, technology and human development The Lithuanian Human Development Report 2003 addresses the issue of Knowledge, Information and Technologies for Human Development. The report is a research on the human development aspects of innovation and information, based on statistics measuring the impact of information technologies on societal development. The objective is to strengthen the national capacity to monitor the process of innovation on the basis of concise and reliable statistics. The report is expected to complement the wo... Lithuania - 2003 |
