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Empowerment and Poverty Reduction The Nepal Human Development Report 2004 concentrates on empowerment. The empowerment approach stresses enhancing people's abilities to realize their basic rights and exercise the freedoms promised by democratic forms of governance. It creates the conditions necessary to enable the poor to take advantage of poverty-reduction opportunities by strengthening their socio-cultural, economic and political capabilities. Empowerment also entails a restructuring of these opportunities themselves: Nepal - 2004 |
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Tamil Nadu Human Development Report The Tamil Nadu HDR (2003) provides insights into the process of development of a state characterized by heavy industrialization, urbanization and good growth rates (marginally ahead of fifteen major Indian States). While identifying the challenges that the state confronts, the reports highlight the achievements recorded in terms of social development and women’s empowerment. In particular, the report recommends that economic policies to be integrated with human development objectives... India - 2003 |
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Assam Human Development Report 2003 The Assam Human Development Report provides an account of the status of human development, across districts of the State and identifies the challenges for future action. While analyzing the human development attainments, the report considers also the atypical characteristics of the State, in particular the geographical location and insurgency. The report documents successes in different sectors, e.g. in literacy and improvements in access to health facilities. It also records that despite t... India - 2003 |
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Balancing Rural and Urban Disparity Mongolia in the past fifty years achieved and sustained relatively high levels of education, health and income despite its large, land-locked territory, harsh climate, low natural productivity and widely dispersed population. However, the NHDR for 2003 shows that human development opportunities since Mongolia's demographic transition became increasingly differentiated between the few large urban centers, declining provincial towns and the subsistence-based rural herder population. Although... Mongolia - 2003 |
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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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Making Green Development A Choice The third China's NHDR deals with the challenge of sustainable development. The main message of the Report is that there is a real opportunity for China to develop a "green agenda", but this vision has to be promoted and furthered by China's leaders and policy makers with relevant critical choices. Annual growth rates have nearly reached 10% on average for the last 20 years. China's rapid transition towards a market economy and its new membership to the WTO are changing the global s... China - 2002 |
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National Human Development Report 2001 The Report attempts to map the state of human development in India, looking in particular at gender equality and poverty. The Report breaks new ground in several areas by presenting the level of human development at State-level and in constructing indices such as a gender equality index. The Report finds that although overall human development has improved, at the State level there are wide disparities. However, it notes that among the middle-income states there is no correspondence betwee... India - 2002 |
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Himachal Pradesh Human Development Report 2002 Himachal Pradesh is considered as a model of mountain area development, with relatively low poverty rates. The success of the region is attributed not only to a prosperous rural economy and high levels of per capita government expenditure but also to focused public interventions, greater participation of women and strong local institutions. However, this first Report goes beyond the success story appro... India - 2002 |
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Third Human Development Report Madhya Pradesh 2002 Using the Power of Democracy for Development The Third Human Development Report records progress made on the human development agenda, reporting on action undertaken and on the uses of democracy for development. By doing so, it highlights substantial progress made in the access to primary and elementary education, now almost universalized. By contrast, the Report acknowledges the need for strengthening efforts in the area of health, and suggests that the answer lies in decentralization to the district and sub-district levels of manageme... India - 2002 |
