Human Development Report 2009: Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development

ISBN-13: 9780230239043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 265 str.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Opis

Human Development Report is a reliable source and alternative perspective on critical issues for human development worldwide. Featuring the Human Development Index, this report presents agenda-setting data and analysis and calls international attention to issues and policy options that put people at the center of strategies to meet the challenges of development todayeconomic, social, political, and cultural. Human Development Report 2007/2008: Fighting Climate Change - Human Solidarity in a Divided World addresses the greatest challenge facing humanity at the start of the 21st Century--climate change. Failure to meet that challenge raises the spectre of unprecedented reversals in human development. This year's Human Development Report explains why we have less than a decade to change course and start living within our global carbon budget. The Report explains how climate change will create long-run low human development traps, pushing vulnera

Spis treści

Freedom and Movement People on the Move: Contexts and Contour Impacts of Mobility on Human Development: What Happens and Why? Policies and Institutions to Enhance Human Development Outcomes

O autorze

The UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. They are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and their wide range of partners. Every year since 1990, the UNDP has commissioned the Human Development Report by an independent team of experts to explore major issues of global concern.