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The Subnational Gender Development Index: Within-country variation in gender (in)equality revealed

29 October 2020 | Jeroen Smits, Professor of Economic and Human Development and Director of the Global Data Lab at Radboud University; Iñaki Permanyer, Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics
In most societies worldwide, gender inequality is widespread, with males better positioned in social, economic, and political hierarchies. Gender equality is important in and of itself, and it is also instrumental in achieving other socially desirable...Read more

Human mobility: a driver of building forward better

28 October 2020 | Luca Renda, Head of the Recovery Solutions and Human Mobility Team, UNDP Crisis Bureau
A decade ago, sending a postcard home was as common as packing a toothbrush for the traveler. Now it’s a relic, a victim of the digital world. How we move has always been a dynamic phenomenon affected by external events – or, as 2020 has shown, how we...Read more

Measuring development progress beyond income: celebrating the 30 years of HDI

20 October 2020 | Yanchun Zhang, Chief Statistician, UNDP
This year’s World Statistics Day celebration has an added significance for UNDP: 2020 also marks the 30th Anniversary of the first Human Development Report (HDR) and its key measure of well-being, the Human...Read more

Nature and well-being: The foundations of human development

24 September 2020 | Tasneem Mirza, Policy Specialist, HDRO; and Steven Stone, Chief of Resources and Markets Branch, UNEP
Human life is facing new, unprecedented challenges. From devastating cyclones to a nearly invisible virus, our lives are shaped by nature in profound ways. The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a spotlight on the relationship between people and planet, and...Read more

A Dashboard Overview: Gender inequality and the COVID-19 crisis

13 July 2020 | Carolina Rivera, Research Analyst, HDRO; Yu-Chieh Hsu, Statistics Analyst, HDRO, Fernanda Pavez Esbry, Research Consultant, HDRO; Esuna Dugarova, Gender Team, UNDP
Click here for Spanish and French. The human development crisis unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic is putting the...Read more

How COVID-19 is changing the world: a statistical perspective

15 May 2020 | Milorad Kovacevic and Admir Jahic, HDRO
The newly released report by the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) of the UN system and supranational organizations, brings a snapshot of data and statistics on how COVID-19...Read more

Tracking attitudes on gender equality

06 April 2020 | Carolina Rivera, Policy Analyst, HDRO
Gender inequalities are rooted in traditional discriminatory social norms and power imbalances that are perpetuated throughout the life cycle and passed from one generation to another. These norms restrict women’s behaviour and the prospects of...Read more

Sticky Floors, Glass Ceilings and Biased Barriers: the architecture of gender inequality

06 March 2020 | Pedro Conceição, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
Architectural metaphors are a popular way to think about inequality between men and women. When it comes to the fundamentals, we often talk about whether there is a “sticky floor” that is holding women and girls back. And the good news is...Read more

On the Importance of the Science-Policy Interface for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

28 February 2020 | Jacob Assa, Policy Specialist, HDRO
The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set a very ambitious vision for what humanity needs to accomplish by the year 2030. With just 10 years left, the United Nations system has declared a...Read more

Volunteering – an expression of agency in times of polarisation between ‘winners and losers’

08 December 2019 | Christina Lengfelder and Margaret Carroll
Christina Lengfelder is a Research Analyst at the Human Development Report Office (HDRO) at UNDP and Margaret Carroll is a Policy Specialist at United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Unlike mainstream economics, the human development approach...Read more
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