©Copyright United Nations Development Program
HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2010
The real wealth of
nations: pathways to human development
Summary
- Complete
report
- Cover
- Foreword,
Acknowledgments and Contents
- Overview
“People are the real wealth of a nation.” With these words the 1990 Human Development
Report (HDR) began a forceful case for a new approach to thinking about
development. That the objective of development should be to create an enabling environment
for people to enjoy long, healthy and creative lives may appear self-evident
today. But that has not always been the case. A central objective of the HDR for the
past 20 years has been to emphasize that development is primarily and fundamentally
about people.
This year’s Report celebrates the contributions
of the human development approach, which
is as relevant as ever to making sense of our
changing world and finding ways to improve
people’s well-being. Indeed, human development
is an evolving idea—not a fixed, static set
of precepts—and as the world changes, analytical
tools and concepts evolve. So this Report
is also about how the human development
approach can adjust to meet the challenges of
the new millennium.
- Chapter
1 - Reaffirming human development
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched the Human Development
Report (HDR) in 1990. It is worth recalling the broader context. The
Berlin Wall was crumbling, and the Soviet Union would soon dissolve. The apartheid
regime in South Africa had just released Nelson Mandela from prison. Iraq
was about to invade Kuwait. Augusto Pinochet had left power in Chile, replaced
by a new democratic regime. The Sandinistas were voted out of office in Nicaragua.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy Party won Myanmar’s
national elections. Students were demonstrating for political reform in Beijing. The
Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges opened. Margaret Thatcher had ruled the
United Kingdom for more than a decade. The term “Washington Consensus” had
just been coined.
In this climate the first HDR stood out, calling
with eloquence and humanity for a different
approach to economics and to development.
These calls have continued to resonate
around the world and have gained renewed
prominence with recent investigations into
measuring people’s well-being and remarkable
advances in data and knowledge. Box
1.1 traces these recent calls back to earlier
decades and introduces Mahbub ul Haq, the
visionary Pakistani economist who pioneered
the HDR.
- Chapter
2 - The advance of people
- Chapter
3 - Diverse paths to progress
- Chapter
4 - Good things don’t always come together
- Chapter
5 - Innovations in measuring inequality and poverty
- Chapter
6 - The agenda beyond 2010
- Notes
and Bibliography
- Readers
guide
- Human
development statistical tables
- Technical
notes
- Errata
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