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Human Development Report 2025

A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of AI

The 2025 Human Development Report explores the implications of artificial intelligence for human development and the choices we can make to ensure that it enhances human capabilities. Rather than attempting to predict the future, the report argues that we must shape it—by making bold decisions so that AI augments what people can do.

Human Development Perspectives

2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)

Poverty amid conflict

The 2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report overlays violent conflict data with multidimensional poverty data to better understand their interlinkages across countries and over time.

Global Reports

Human Development Report 2023-24

Breaking the gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarized world

The 2023/24 Human Development Report assesses the dangerous gridlock resulting from uneven development progress, intensifying inequality, and escalating political polarization, that we must urgently tackle. The report emphasizes how global interdependence is being reconfigured and proposes a path forward where multilateralism plays a pivotal role.

Human Development Perspectives

2023 Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI)

Breaking down gender biases: Shifting social norms towards gender equality

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Managing Competition and Scarcity for Hunger and Poverty Reduction and Environmental Sustainability
The report addresses the growing water challenges in developing countries, distinguishing between two different categories of water resources problematique. In the irrigated Green Revolution countries, an urban/rural blue water competition is emerging, driven by population growth, urban expansion, industrialization and new lifestyles. The problems are especially demanding in regions with depleted rivers and overexploited groundwater aquifers.
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This regional HDR is a major step towards bringing ICT to the centre of the development debate. The Report's unique approach lies in its use of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)to measure and monitor the impact of ICTs on human development. Its comparative study across the nine countries in Asia highlights both the qualitative and quantitative linkages between ICTs and human development and the channels through which the linkage effects occur.

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The Threat to Developing Countries
This paper focuses on the political economic forces driving WTO-plus provisions in bilateral and regional trade and investment agreements, and the implications for multilateralism and access to medicines in developing countries.
National Reports

Linking Environment to Human Development: A Deliberate Choice
The 2005 NHDR is the sixth in a series reporting on the country's trends in human development. The theme of this Report is environment and human development. Specifically this year's theme: Linking Environment To Human Development: A Deliberate Choice recognises the importance and close linkage of the environment to sustainable human development.
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La propuesta principal del Informe es una sustentada invocación a organizar las capacidades de los peruanos, de manera articulada y complementaria, para contrarrestar las fuerzas que tienden a su dispersión e incluso a su desintegración, y que han determinado sus históricas inequidades econ ómicas y sociales. El informe contribuye a cimentar la idea de que la competitividad es un asunto que implica a todos los peruanos.
This case study will analyse the nature of pastoral conflict and its implications for the border areas of Kenya and Uganda. While insecurity and conflict in these areas is often characterised as arising from competition over scarce resources, there are broader dimensions to these conflicts. These revolve around a long history of social, economic and political exclusion from the centre.
National Reports

The Challenge of Youth Employment
The report was prepared in collaboration with a National Steering Committee and a working group after analyses of all the national data and statistics from reports, surveys and studies carried out on Bhutan. The analyses concluded that while unemployment level was low in the country, its burden fell disproportionately on the youth.
The United States leads the world in spending on health care, devoting 13% of national income to health, and more than twice as much per person as the OECD average. Yet despite this investment, countries spending substantially less than the US have healthier populations. America’s performance is marred by deep inequalities linked to income, health insurance coverage, race, ethnicity, geography, and – critically – access to care.