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HDR 2002 - Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

Politics matter for human development. Reducing poverty depends as much on whether poor people have political power as on their opportunities for economic progress. Democracy has proven to be the system of governance most capable of mediating and preventing conflict and of securing and...

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

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

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 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 challenge is to ensure that the benefits are shared equitably and that this increasing interdependence works for people—not just for profits. This year’s Report argues that...

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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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HDR 1993 - People's Participation

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

The 1993 Report examines how and how much people participate in the events and processes that shape their lives. The democratic transition in many developing countries, the collapse of many socialist regimes, and the worldwide emergence of people's organizations - these are all part of a...

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HDR 1990 - Concept and Measurement of Human Development

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

The Human Development Report (HDR) was first launched in 1990 with the single goal of putting people back at the center of the development process in terms of economic debate, policy and advocacy. The goal was both massive and simple, with far-ranging implications — going beyond income to...

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HDR 1992 - Global Dimensions of Human Development

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

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. The outcome of this task highlights a serious...

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HDR 2009 - Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development

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Migration, both within and beyond borders, has become an increasingly prominent theme in domestic and international debates, and is the topic of the 2009 Human Development Report (HDR09). The starting point is that the global distribution of capabilities is extraordinarily unequal, and that this...

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The geographical location of manufacturing exporters in South Africa

Naudé, Wim; Matthee, Marianne - 2007

This paper provides empirical evidence on the location of export-oriented manufacturing firms in Africa (South Africa …), and on how the patterns of location has changed over the past decade after the country embarked on trade liberalization …' location, with more than 70 per cent of manufacturing exports in South Africa originating from a band of 100 km from a port …

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A note on the equilibrium properties of locational sorting models

Bayer, Patrick J.; Timmins, Christopher - 2003

A central feature of many models of location choice - whether of firms or households, within or across cities - is the … role of local interactions or spillovers, whereby the payoffs from choosing a location depend in part on the number or … the location decision to depend on both fixed local attributes (including unobserved attributes) and such local …

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