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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals are a global commitment to “transforming our world” and eradicating poverty in all its forms everywhere. The challenge...

The report finds a development conundrum. Despite people on average living longer, healthier, and wealthier lives, these advances have not succeeded in increasing people’s sense of security. This is...

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...

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...

This Strategy sets out the priorities and themes of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development over the period 2021–2025. It integrates research, communications, policy engagement...

There is perhaps no stronger evidence of the pressing need to redesign our global system than the fact that a global health crisis doubled the wealth of the 10 richest men in the world while sending...

Latin America and the Caribbean is a region of great contrasts, where wealth and prosperity coexist with vulnerability and extreme poverty. The list of contrasts is long and familiar. The region is...

Continuing the thread of the 2019 and 2020 Human Development Reports (HDRs), the 2021/22 HDR carries forward a conversation centered on inequalities while integrating other important themes related to...

Continuing the thread of the 2019 and 2020 Human Development Reports (HDRs), the 2021/2022 HDR carries forward a conversation centered on inequalities while integrating other important themes related...

Continuing the thread of the 2019 and 2020 Human Development Reports (HDRs), the 2021/22 HDR carries forward a conversation centered on inequalities while integrating other important themes related to...

Continuing the thread of the 2019 and 2020 Human Development Reports (HDRs), the 2021/22 HDR carries forward a conversation centered on inequalities while integrating other important themes related to...

This report’s analysis is centered on the economic and political reforms of the 1990s. If most of these reforms did not directly address gender equality, they nevertheless received considerable...

This collection of essays casts a spotlight on the often neglected corners of what is known as the information society. Several very different layers are illuminated, from the philosophical...

This volume brings together case studies by urban development practitioners assisting in efforts to achieve dignified living and working conditions for some of the most vulnerable groups in large...

The current emphasis on trade liberalization and economic restructuring will affect many countries that have a large female workforce in labour-intensive industries. This publication argues that the...