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The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...
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health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and … also in terms of non-traditional measures, such as self-rated poverty and happiness. The BLSS 2012, together with the BLSS …
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vocational education and training, (iii) cooperating in higher education and research, (iv) addressing regional health issues, (v …
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representative projects in the road transport, health, tourism, and energy sectors were selected for detailed analysis, and research …
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In 2011, Uzbekistan celebrated 20 years of independence. The transition has not been smooth for any country in the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Uzbekistan, too, has experienced both positive and negative developments in gender equality. The status of women and men in Uzbekistan is...
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This study analyzes the potential fiscal, health, and poverty impacts of increasing cigarette taxes in five countries …, but do reap a substantial proportion of the health benefits of reduced smoking. …
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Viewed as a key to strengthening accountability, citizen empowerment alone is not enough to guarantee quality public service. It must go hand in hand with better governance. This report highlights two factors that have improved governance and public service provision in developing Asia: (i)...
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-economic status through increases in income or consumption but can also be detrimental to the health status and emotional well … migration on a broad range of variables that include socio economic outcomes such as consumption, nutrition, health status and … emotional well-being for adult household members and health and schooling outcomes for children. We find consistent results for …
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Human Development, if not engendered, is endangered. That is the simple but far-reaching message of Human Development Report 1995. The Report analyses the progress made in reducing gender disparities in the past few decades, highlighting the wide and persistent gap between women's expanding...
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Eradicating poverty everywhere is more than a moral imperative - it is a practical possibility. That is the most … important message of the Human Development Report 1997. The world has the resources and the know-how to create a poverty …-free world in less than a generation. The Report focuses not just on poverty of incomes but on poverty from a human development …
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