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This report breaks new ground in applying a human development approach to the study of migration.

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Overcoming barriers
Human mobility and development

Migration, both within and beyond borders, is a prominent theme in domestic and international debates, and is the topic of the 2009 HDR. The starting point is that the global distribution of capabilities is extraordinarily unequal, and that this is a major driver for movement of people.

Global Reports - 2009

Human Development Report 2007/2008
Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world

Climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity at the start of the 21st Century. Failure to meet that challenge raises the spectre of unprecedented reversals in human development. The world’s poorest countries and poorest people will bear the brunt. This year’s Human Development Report explains why we have less than a decade to change course and start living within our global carbon budget. It explains how climate change will create long-run low human development traps, pushing vuln...

Global Reports - 2007, 2008

Human Development Report 2006
Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis

Water is a source of life and a natural resource that sustains our environments and supports livelihoods – but it is also a source of risk and vulnerability. In the early 21st Century, prospects for human development are threatened by a deepening global water crisis. Debunking the myth that the crisis is the result of scarcity, this report argues poverty, power and inequality are at the heart of the problem. The Human Development Report continues to frame debates on some of the most pressing ...

Global Reports - 2006

Human Development Report 2005
International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world

This year's Human Development Report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the MDGs. Looking beyond statistics, it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises. Extreme inequality between countries and within countries is identified as one of the main barriers to human development and as a powerful brake on accelerated progress towards the MDGs.

Global Reports - 2005

Human Development Report 2004
Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World

Accommodating people's growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so that all people can choose to speak their language, practice their religion, and participate in shaping their culture so that all people can choose to be who they are.

Global Reports - 2004

Human Development Report 2003
Millennium Development Goals: A compact among nations to end human poverty

The range of human development in the world is vast and uneven, with astounding progress in some areas amidst stagnation and dismal decline in others. Balance and stability in the world will require the commitment of all nations, rich and poor, and a global development compact to extend the wealth of possibilities to all people.

Global Reports - 2003

Human Development Report 2002
Deepening democracy in a fragmented world

This Human Development Report is first and foremost about the idea that politics is as important to successful development as economics. Sustained poverty reduction requires equitable growth-but it also requires that poor people have political power. And the best way to achieve that in a manner consistent with human development objectives is by building strong and deep forms of democratic governance at all levels of society.

Global Reports - 2002

Human Development Report 2001
Making new technologies work for human development

Technology networks are transforming the traditional map of development, expanding people's horizons and creating the potential to realize in a decade progress that required generations in the past.

Global Reports - 2001

Human Development Report 2000
Human rights and human development

Human Development Report 2000 looks at human rights as an intrinsic part of development and at development as a means to realizing human rights. It shows how human rights bring principles of accountability and social justice to the process of human development.

Global Reports - 2000

Human Development Report 1999
Globalization with a Human Face

Global markets, global technology, global ideas and global solidarity can enrich the lives of people everywhere. The challenge is to ensure that the benefits are shared equitably and that this increasing interdependence works for people not just for profits. This year's Report argues that globalization is not new, but that the present era of globalization, driven by competitive global markets, is outpacing the governance of markets and the repercussions on people.

Global Reports - 1999