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Innovar para incluir jóvenes y desarrollo humano El Informe sobre Desarrollo Humano para Mercosur, presenta a los jóvenes como medios y fines del desarrollo. La noción de juventud no sólo se relaciona con el ciclo de vida comprendido entre 15 y 29 años, sino con un concepto socio-cultural que identifica rasgos específicos que van cambiando junto con los distintos contextos socio-históricos. Por tal motivo, a la presente generación se la ha denominado como “generación de la tecno-... Latin America and the Caribbean - 2009 |
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Tackling Corruption, Transforming Lives Asia Pacific Human Development Report Corruption has been seen as inevitable – unpleasant and unethical, but probably unavoidable. Now, however, it is increasingly being challenged as unacceptable across Asia and the Pacific. In the process, eliminating corruption that plagues people’s daily lives must become a priority: widespread malfeasance corrodes health care, education and public utilities across Asia and the Pacific. Blatant injustice occurs through corrupt police and courts. Cross border corruption, propelled ... Asia and the Pacific - 2008 |
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Living with HIV in Eastern Europe and CIS The human cost of social exclusion The report draws on data from an innovative six-country research study conducted by UNDP together with Oxford University researchers and local social research institutes and organisations of people living with HIV that looked at exclusion in the health, education and employment sectors from the point of view of people living with HIV. The report also consults the views of people representing institutions in three key sectors that, where not properly addressed, generate much of the vulnerabili... Eastern Europe & Central Asia - 2008 |
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Asia Pacific Human Development Report Trade on Human Terms The Report highlights that free trade can benefit the poor of Asia-Pacific if countries adopt bold new policies that harness trade and economic growth to promote people’s well-being. It also highlights the important sub-regional variations in employment performance across the region. Employment growth increased slightly in South Asia, but plummeted in East Asia, mainly because of a slowdown in employment growth in China. Asia and the Pacific - 2006 |
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Arab Human Development Report 2005 Empowerment of Arab Women Gender inequality is generally recognized as one of the main obstacles to development in the Arab Region. This volume of the Report focuses on the history and contemporary dynamics of Arab women's economic, political, and social empowerment. It details the processes in which gender impacts on Arab development while suggesting means of overcoming some of the challenges and building more equitable societies. Arab States - 2005 |
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Regional Human Development Report Promoting ICT for Human Development in Asia This regional HDR is a major step towards bringing ICT to the centre of the development debate. The Report's unique approach lies in its use of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)to measure and monitor the impact of ICTs on human development. Its comparative study across the nine countries in Asia highlights both the qualitative and quantitative linkages between ICTs and human development and the channels through which the linkage effects occur. Asia and the Pacific - 2005 |
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Bringing down barriers Regional cooperation for human development and human security "Central Asia is a pivotal region that stands at a critical crossroads. This report shows how governments, business, civil society and communities can come together in many different areas - in trade, investment, water, energy, and environment, in natural disaster preparedness and drug control, in education, health and culture - to create greater opportunities for human development and human security in the region." — Johannes Linn, lead author, CA HDR Eastern Europe & Central Asia - 2005 |
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At Risk Roma and the Displaced in Southeast Europe At Risk: Roma and the Displaced in Southeast Europe" builds on and expands the groundbreaking work first published in Avoiding the Dependency Trap, the 2003 regional report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Roma in Central Europe. That report offered a deeper, more complex view of Roma exclusion. Using quantitative data from cross-country surveys, it complemented the traditional human rights paradigm with a human development perspective. The report emphasized the imp... Eastern Europe & Central Asia - 2005 |
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Arab Human Development Report 2004 Towards Freedom in the Arab World The Arab Human Development Report 2004 delves into the constitutional, legal, political, and social flaws and constraints on freedom that impede good governance in the Arab region, and presents a strategic vision for promoting good governance as a means of encouraging different Arab societies to explore and define their own specific paths towards achieving an Arab renaissance. Arab States - 2004 |
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Reversing the Epidemic Facts and Policy Options Several countries in the region are experiencing some of the fastest growing HIV epidemics in the world. The report addresses the epidemiological trends in the countries of the region, with specific information about trends among key risk groups, including intravenous drug users, sex workers, prisoners, and homosexual men. It explores the economic, poverty, and human development impact of HIV/AIDS on the region, the human rights dimension, and the trade-offs between the prevention and treatm... Eastern Europe & Central Asia - 2004 |
