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HDR 1998 - Consumption for Human Development

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this century. Yet the Report states that the benefits of this consumption have been badly distributed, leaving a backlog of …

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HDR 1999 - Globalization with a Human Face

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Global markets, global technology, global ideas and global solidarity can enrich the lives of people everywhere. The … competitive global markets, is outpacing the governance of markets and the repercussions on people. Characterized by “shrinking … markets can go too far and squeeze the non-market activities so vital for human development. Fiscal squeezes are constraining …

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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 2000 - Human Rights and Human Development

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Human rights and human development share a common vision and a common purpose—to secure, for every human being, freedom, well-being and dignity. Divided by the cold war, the rights agenda and development agenda followed parallel tracks. Now converging, their distinct strategies and traditions...

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HDR 2002 - Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World

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they are governed, democracy brings principles of participation and accountability to the process of human development …

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HDR 2005 - International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world

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This 2005 Human Development Report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the MDGs. Looking beyond statistics; it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises. Extreme inequality between countries and within countries is identified as one of the main...

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HDR 1992 - Global Dimensions of Human Development

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The world has a unique opportunity to use global markets for the benefit of all nations and all people. The 2002 Report … looks at the workings of these global markets - at how they meet, or fail to meet, the needs of the world's poorest people … markets in proper perspective. It suggests a two-pronged strategy to get out of the dilemma of equitable distribution. First …

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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. In 2000 the UN Millennium Declaration, adopted at the largest-ever gathering of heads of state, committed countries — rich and poor — to doing all they can to eradicate...

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HDR 1997 - Human Development to Eradicate Poverty

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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...

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HDR 1996 - Economic Growth and Human Development

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The 1996 Report opens with a fundamental statement: "Human development is the end - economic growth a means." The Report argues that economic growth, if not properly managed, can be jobless, voiceless, ruthless, rootless and futureless, and thus detrimental to human development. The quality of...

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