Human Development Report 2010

Human Development Report 2010 —20th Anniversary Edition
The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – November 4^th, 2010
Available online PDF [236p.] at: http://bit.ly/915GUq 

…..The first Human Development Report in 1990 opened with the simply stated premise that has guided all subsequent Reports: 
“People are the real wealth of a nation.”
By backing up this assertion with an abundance of empirical data and a new way of thinking about and measuring development, the Human Development Report has had a profound impact on development policies around the world. …”

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·         Complete report [11,178 KB]
·         Foreword, Acknowledgments and Contents [240 KB] Introduction by Amartya Sen
·         Overview [119 KB]
·         Chapter 1 - Reaffirming human development [362 KB]
·         Chapter 2 - The advance of people [6,143 KB]
·         Chapter 3 - Diverse paths to progress [551 KB]
·         Chapter 4 - Good things don’t always come together [620 KB]
·         Chapter 5 - Innovations in measuring inequality and poverty [2,061 KB]
·         Chapter 6 - The agenda beyond 2010 [560 KB]
·         Notes and Bibliography [302 KB]
·         Readers guide [87 KB]
·         Human development statistical tables [644 KB]
·         Technical notes [339 KB]

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