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The Human Development Report has had a profound impact on development policies around the world. The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first...

The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could...

This report, the first regional Human Development Report (HDR) for the Arab States, focuses on the people of the Arab world, particularly the citizens of the 22 member states of the Arab League, from...

The 2001 Report is about people. It is about how people can create and use technology to improve their lives. It is also about forging new public policies to lead the revolutions in information and...

For transitional justice efforts to be effective, they must be grounded in international human rights standards. Above all, they must be human rights-based: consistently focusing on the rights and...

Twenty five years ago the first Human Development Report in 1990 began with a simple notion: that development is about enlarging people’s choices—focusing broadly on the richness of human lives rather...

Over the last decades, most countries have improved levels of human development. But progress maybe slowing as uncertainty intensifies globally. This report examines vulnerabilities that endanger...

(Arabic language) This new and exciting publication explores human rights in the context of constitution making. It notes the important role of participatory processes which should be designed to...

The 2016 Human Development Report focuses on how human development can be ensured for every one, now and in future. It starts with an account of the hopes and challenges of today’s world, envisioning...

Gender inequality is generally recognized as one of the main obstacles to development in the Arab Region. This volume of the Report focuses on the history and contemporary dynamics of Arab women's...

This year’s Human Development Report looks at an issue that profoundly in uences human poten- tial and progress towards the Millennium Devel- opment Goals. roughout history human prog- ress has...

This Report is about the scale of the challenge facing the world at the start of the 10-year countdown to 2015. Its focus is on what govern- ments in rich countries can do to keep their side of the...

The Arab Human Development Report 2022 focuses on post-COVID recovery, assessing long standing development challenges across the spheres of governance, society, and economy—tackling aspects of gender...