The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations University (UNU) will co-host a hybrid event, " A ...

The HDR Japan launch event will serve as a dynamic platform to explore how we can shape the future under the theme of “choice,” with a particular focus on the implications of artificial intelligence ...

Valuing care work Estimating the market value of care work can highlight the critical contribution care workers make.

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 ...

"The Niger Delta is a region suffering from administrative neglect, crumbling social infrastructure and services, high unemployment, social deprivation, abject poverty, filth and squalor, and endemic ...

This report provides a comprehensive picture of acute multidimensional poverty to inform the work of countries and communities building a more just future for the global poor.

The 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.

2015 marks 25 years since the first Human Development Report introduced a new approach for advancing human flourishing. And while the expression “human development” is widely used, it is understood in ...

Launched in 2010 by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at the University of Oxford and the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme for the flagship ...

This 2005 Human Development Report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the MDGs. Looking beyond statistics; it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises ...

Rapid urbanisation: opportunities and challenges to improve the well-being of societies By 2050 more than two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities.