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Forecasting the Impacts of Environmental Constraints on Human Development

Hughes, Barry B.; Irfan, Mohammod T.; Moyer, Jonathan D.; … - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2011

Environmental constraints have always had and will always have important consequences for human development. It has sometimes contributed to or even caused the reversal of such development. The possibility that such constraints will grow significantly throughout this century raises the concern...

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HDR 2011 - Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

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The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be …

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HDR 1998 - Consumption for Human Development

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? Preoccupied with environmental sustainability, globalization of production and consumption, the Report rightly asks, after a …

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HDR 1996 - Economic Growth and Human Development

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, and thus detrimental to human development. The quality of growth is therefore as important as its quantity; for poverty … reduction, human development and sustainability. The Report concludes that the links between economic growth and human …

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HDR 2010 - The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development

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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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A Review of Human Development Trends in South Asia: 1990-2009

Kumar, Avinash - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

, ethnicity, religion and gender. The paper, outlining these challenges, argues that while a direct attack on poverty through …

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The Living Conditions and Well-being of Refugees

de Bruijn, Bart - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

In the study of international mobility, refugees make up a very specific population. In contrast to most migrants, forcibly displaced persons have little opportunity for expanding livelihoods, and are usually faced with realities that deny them a dignified life and fulfilment of their...

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HDR 2003 - Millennium Development Goals: A Compact Among Nations to End Human Poverty

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The new century opened with an unprecedented declaration of solidarity and determination to rid the world of poverty … — rich and poor — to doing all they can to eradicate poverty, promote human dignity and equality and achieve peace, democracy … and environmental sustainability. World leaders promised to work together to meet concrete targets for advancing …

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HDR 2004 - Cultural Liberty in Today’s Diverse World

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Accommodating people’s growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so...

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HDR 1995 - Gender and Human Development

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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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