The latest HCH data indicate that over 90 percent of the assessed countries (161 out of 176 analyzed countries) are projected ...

The symposium opened with a day of nature immersion and policy innovation talks to provide opportunities for participants to ...

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 ...

New Climate Dataset Warns Poorest Nations Will See Sharp Drop in Crop Yields, Impacting Human Development ...

Rather than discuss how ‘sanitation’ can be provided or improved for those who are currently unserved or inadequately served, this paper will review three initiatives that did provide or improve ...

This 2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report overlays violent conflict data with multidimensional poverty data to better understand their interlinkages across countries and over time.

Throughout history, cities have been the main centres of learning, culture and innovation. It is not surprising that the world's most urban countries tend to be the richest and have the highest human ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing a human development crisis. On some dimensions of human development, conditions today are equivalent to levels of deprivation last seen in the mid-1980s. But the ...

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 ...

This 2025 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report, for the first time, overlays data on climate hazards and multidimensional poverty to assess how exposed poor people are to environmental ...

While the expression “human development” is widely used, it is understood in different ways around..