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2013 Report

The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World is available for free downloading

24 Years of Human Development Reports

HDRs (GIF)   
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Education for labour

The Report confirms that education is a crucial factor influencing employment opportunities. Hence, unemployment or leaving the labor market before reaching retirement age with no significant chance of finding new employment results from too low qualifications which also do not match the needs of the transforming economy. This in turn is a consequence of non-relevant content of education and its poor quality. Considering high unemployment rate (despite decrease from the highest level of 20 pe...

Poland - 2007

Working Out Employment

This year's Human Development Report Poland 2004 'Working out Employment' is the eighth example of the Polish national report in the United Nations Human Development Report series. Its principal subjects are the transformations of the contemporary labour market and problems with employment growth in Poland a country subjected, over a short time, to the parallel influence of several processes: systemic transformation, modernisation and globalisation. Economic growth is an important, though no...

Poland - 2004

Poland and the Global Information Society - Logging on

This Report is the seventh Poland's NHDR. It differs from its predecessors for its aim is to show perspectives for the future rather than to analyze the current state of affairs. This Report reflects on what the Global Information Society will be like and what are the challenges and threats Poland will face in order to emerge as a member of this global society. What will be the people's roles? What will be the key to human development in this society? How will this society and its instituti...

Poland - 2001

Human Development Report on Rural Development

Rural Poland compromises over 80 percent of the country's land area and 30 percent of its population. The 2000 Report identifies the growing gap between urban and rural areas through an analysis of regional disparities in economic investment and performance. The Report scrutinizes the agricultural sector of the country, which is at the forefront of negotiations on the Polish accession to the EU, and recommends activating the under-utilized potential of the sector.

Poland - 2000

Towards Active Dignified Old Age

Poland - 1999

Access to Education

Poland's 1998 report reviews inequalities in access to education against the background of human rights, of long-term changes in human development, as well as new requirements for learning determined by the needs of the "knowledge society". The NHDR 1998 reveals that sub-regional disparities in human development have increased in Poland. The pattern of these disparities, however, have not changed, with the lowest levels of human development in rural areas and the highest in regions...

Poland - 1998

Zmieniająca się rola państwa

Poland - 1997

Habitat and Human Development

Whereas the first Polish NHDR summarized the first years of transition and emphasized the social cost of the process, the 1996 NHDR focused particularly on the themes of the Second UN conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT II), with particular reference to the critical housing situation in the country and the search for solutions. The particular situation of housing problems in the Katowice and Gdansk voivodships and the solutions in terms of affordable housing developed by a publishing com...

Poland - 1996

General Human Development Report

The Summary in Part III provides a comprehensive account of social development after 1989; opportunities for and threats to human development; forecasts of social development and possible scenarios for its application in Poland. These include four options: 1) Continuation of hitherto existing concepts, 2) Improve what exists, 3) Use of free market and philanthropy, and 4) Withdrawal of the state and expanding the voluntary sector. The results of the implementation of each option are described...

Poland - 1995