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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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This paper addresses the worsening social and economic inequalities in the Brazilian labour market during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on a comparison with the previous economic context and considering intersections among gender, race and ethnicity, education and age.
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This paper discusses possible reasons for the global deterioration in social attitudes despite greater economic prosperity, wider dissemination of technology and reductions in poverty. This deterioration manifests in the form of deeper political polarization, less trust in institutions and lower tolerance for dissenting views and opinions.
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Traditional human security thinking sees nature either as a direct threat to human well-being or as a threat resulting from human action, as is the case of pollution or climate change. Protection against threats has been a major concern of human security thinking, yet that thinking has not examined the positive role nature can play in mitigating threats or promoting well-being.
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Rapport National Sur Le Developpement Humain, Edition 2023

Le Mali vit, depuis janvier 2012, dans une crise multidimensionnelle sans précédent. Son caractère mul-tidimensionnel résulte du fait que le pays s’est trouvé plongé à la fois dans une crise politique, une crise sanitaire (pandémie de la COVID-19 en 2020), une crise sécuritaire et une crise économique (résultant du boycott du coton en 2020, de l’embargo CEDEAO-UEMOA et du conflit Ukraine-Russie).
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Amid a new generation of complex, interlinked threats in the Anthropocene era, the importance of universal healthcare systems in human security is increasing, not only in safeguarding against infectious diseases but also in addressing wider links between health and social inequalities.
Human Development Perspectives

Twin indices on women’s empowerment and gender equality
This report expands the measures for women and girls to exercise their potential, their opportunities and the choices available to them. Policies that seek to further empower women and girls and achieve gender parity require robust data and measures that are comparable across countries and based on a sound methodology. While some such measures are available, the picture has been incomplete.
Human Development Perspectives

Unstacking global poverty: Data for high impact action
This report provides a comprehensive picture of acute multidimensional poverty to inform the work of countries and communities building a more just future for the global poor.
Human Development Perspectives

Breaking down gender biases: Shifting social norms towards gender equality

Without tackling biased gender social norms, we will not achieve gender equality or the Sustainable Development Goals. Biased gender social norms—the undervaluation of women’s capabilities and rights in society—constrain women’s choices and opportunities by regulating behaviour and setting the boundaries of what women are expected to do and be. Biased gender social norms are a major impediment to achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls.