UN Human Development report
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 8, 2022
Rebeca Grynspan, the first woman and first Latin American to lead the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, has a lot of work to do. The organization, founded in 1964 as a standing committee, now has 195 member…
- Categories: Women as Changemakers
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 6, 2018
They were two young men studying at Cambridge University when they met in the wake of the bloody Partition of British India. One was a Kashmiri-born Muslim and the other a Hindu-born Bengali. But the two, Mahbub ul Haq…
- Categories: Asia, Development
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 13, 2013
For the developing world, the news in the 2013 United Nations Human Development Report is almost all good. (More on that “almost” later.) The title of the report, The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World,…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, Health and Population, Special Report
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