Measuring and ranking countries’ efforts to protect animal and plant life will incentivise us to achieve a better future ...

When it comes to improving economic outcomes for women and women’s empowerment, effective action requires reliable data. Yet, ...

The forthcoming Nature Relationship Index (NRI) is currently under development by HDRO, and will build on research, technical inputs and consultations with a range of partners, and is expected to be ...

The HDR 2003 is the first macroeconomic study on culture and development in the country. The report provides an analysis of all relevant cultural aspects for Honduras' development. Such an analysis ...

In 2012, for the first time, the United Nations General Assembly agreed on a common understanding of the essence of the human security concept. This is a major advance in the mainstreaming of the ...

The report draws on data from an innovative six-country research study conducted by UNDP together with Oxford University researchers and local social research institutes and organisations of people ...

Meruert Makhmutova - Kazakhstan Team Leader (The Public Policy Research Center), Roman Mogilevsky - Kyrgyzstan Team Leader (Center for Social and Economic Research), Muzaffar Olimov - Tajikistan Team ...

The challenge for Uzbekistan is to improve the quality of education, maintain wide access and lifelong learning for a population that will ensure Uzbekistan a significant position among the community ...

The production model that was promoted internationally in the wake of the Second World War led to some notable gains in terms of economic growth and sharp rises in productivity in a wide range of ...

Creative work has enhanced human development since early times; similarly, the latter can expand the former. But the links are not automatic. Creative work can be rife with exploitation and gender ...