UNDP‘s Human Development Report for year 2005 is out.
Progress on aid, trade and security must be linked: We know that the MDGs are attainable, but if we continue with business as usual, the promise of the Millennium Declaration will be broken. That would be a tragedy above all for the world’s poor—but rich countries would not be immune to the consequences of failure
Extreme inequality slows progress: Anybody questioning whether income distribution matters might reflect on the fact that the poorest 10 percent of Brazilians are poorer than their counterparts in Viet Nam, a country with a far lower average income
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