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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

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Venezuela National Human Development Report 2002
Information and Communication Technologies in the Service of Development

The Report explores the ways ICTs can be used in order to further human development, reduce inequalities and help increase opportunities for the Venezuelan people. The authors regard ICTs as a tool for human development rather, a means to develop powerful institutional, political, economic, and social networks, since such technologies foster communication and information exchange. The Report also assesses the current level of ICT use in Venezuela and provides policy recommendations in order t...

Venezuela - 2002

Ways to Overcome Poverty

The Report studies poverty from a human development perspective. The analysis is mainly based on information obtained from the Social Survey 1998 (ENSO 98). The Report highlights the alarming growth and intensification of poverty in Venezuela over the past few decades, and the imbalance between this and the resources made available, particularly when compared to other countries with fewer resources. The Report finds that two out of every 10 households living in extreme poverty have at leas...

Venezuela - 2000

Public Investment, Human Development and Decentralization

The main subjects of this report are public expenditures, decentralization and human development. The report analyzes the provision of public resources assigned to social sectors in states of the country and their relationship to progress and deprivations in human development. In addition, the report continues and complements the main issue of the previous report: human development and decentralization, in regard to the effect of decentralization on the efficacy and efficiency of public expen...

Venezuela - 1999

Decentralization and Human Development

In this fourth report, the main subject is human development and decentralization. Is the concept of Human Development applicable at the local level? How can development be achieved? This report discusses some aspects of this complex phenomenon in order to offer guidelines to action and decision-making.

Venezuela - 1998

Venezuelan Social and Economic Situation

The report argues that poverty is more than income poverty, it is an absence of options and opportunities to live a tolerable life. This is an examination of the world-wide problem of poverty, from a Human Development perspective, starting off the recognition of the reduction in poverty over the century, especially during the last fifty years.

Venezuela - 1997

Evaluation of the national situation of Human Development starting with its position in the international context

Venezuela - 1996

Application of the Human Development concept introduced by the Human Development Index

The Human Development Index has been applied for the first time in Venezuela as a result of the fifth anniversary of the UN. Their results are an important information source for planning and for restructuring and modernization of state processes. This is the first report disaggregated by states and sex for Venezuela. It uses the concept and methodology from the global HDR of 1990. The objective of the report is to become a tool for discussion and a guide for political decision-making and sta...

Venezuela - 1995