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Human Development Report 1994
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I Kaul
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Human Development Report Office, UNDP,
1994
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The 1994 Human Development Report introduces a new concept of human security, which equates security with people rather than territories, with development rather than arms. It examines both the nation...
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Arab Human Development Report 2009: challenges to human security in Arab countries
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M. El-Sayyid;M. Al-Rasheed;S. Benjelloun;Et al
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Human Development Report Office, UNDP,
2009
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This report examines human development in the Arab world through a human security lens, calling on policymakers and other stakeholders to move away from a state-centric conception of security to on...
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Measuring human development: a primer - guidelines and tools for statistical research, analysis and advocacy
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J. Puri;A. Gaye;S. Kurukulasuriya
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Human Development Report Office, UNDP,
2007
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The human development approach represents a simple yet powerful idea: putting people at the centre of development. It is about enlarging people’s choices and freedoms to live a long and healthy ...
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Egypt’s social contract: the role of civil society: Human Development Report 2008
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Human Development Report Office, UNDP,
2008
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Around the world, governments are recognizing the vital role that civil society plays in the development process and increasingly, civil society, especially think tanks, is being invited to contrib...
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Energy development and climate change: decarbonising growth in South Africa
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H. Winkler;A. Marquard
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Human Development Report Office, UNDP,
2007
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Not only does South Africa have an extremely energy-intensive economy based primarily on coal, leading to relatively high emissions, but it simultaneously faces a host of daunting development challeng...
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Famine in Malawi: causes and consequences
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R. Menon
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Human Development Report Office, UNDP,
2007
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Reports of a devastating famine in Malawi first surfaced as rumors whispered in rural areas in the country around October 2001. However, little was done by way of action, despite warnings from expert ...
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Human Development Report 2007/2008: Fighting climate change: human solidarity in a divided world
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K. Watkins
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Human Development Report Office, UNDP,
2007
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Climate change is now widely recognised as the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century and no country will be immune to its impact. The Human Development Report 2007/2008 argues th...
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Water rights and wrongs: a young people's summary of the United Nations Human Development Report 2006, Beyond Scarcity: power, poverty, and the global water crisis
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Human Development Report Office, UNDP,
2007
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Aimed at young people, this booklet presents key points from the 2006 Human Development Report on water scarcity and its effects on human life. The report is user-friendly, using photographs and illus...
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Human Development Report 2001: making new technologies work for human development
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Human Development Report Office, UNDP,
2001
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This 2001 UNDP Human Development Report looks specifically at how new technologies will affect developing countries and poor people. Many people fear that these technologies may be of little use to t...
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National responses to make globalization work for human development (Chapter4, Human Development Report, 1999)
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Human Development Report Office, UNDP,
1999
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This article concentrates on the negative effects of globalisation, which in some cases may cause the squeezing of non-market activities, so crucial for human development. Negative effects of globalis...
