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Iran has made significant progress on human development—UNDP Official
UN Resident Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative Ms. Consuelo Vidal said the Islamic Republic of Iran has made significant progress on human development.
“I am pleased to share with you here today that the Islamic Republic of Iran has continued to make great achievements in a number of areas, as a result of which its ranking has changed from 88 in 2009 to 70 in 2010 which shows significant progress on human development,” she said here Thursday.
Addressing a press conference on the occasion of the global launch of the Human Development Report (HDR) 2010 and the 20th Anniversary of the HDR, she said since the beginning, the Human Development concept and its report were based on a simple, yet important principle: national development should be measured not only by national income, but should also consider other elements such as life expectancy and literacy.
“Consequently, during the past 20 years, HDRs have covered different issues that impact human development and successfully advanced a central thesis: that people should be at the center of all development activities,” Vidal added.
Referring to the original concept and vision of the initiators of the global UNDP Human Development Reports, she said the late Mahbub Ul-Haq and the Noble Laureate Amartya Sen have guided 20 years of research that have strengthened the Human Development paradigm throughout the world. By now, more than 600 national human development reports have been researched, written and published by development thinkers in their respective countries.
The UNDP Official said many countries have made great gains in health and education despite only modest growth in income, while some countries with strong economic performance over the decades have failed to make similarly impressive progress in life expectancy, schooling and overall living standards.
“The Report this year, for example, reveals that Asian countries have led development progress, and have almost doubled the attainment of the Human Development Index (HDI) in the past 40 years,” she added.
Vidal pointed out that one very special innovation of the 2010 Global HDR is the addition of three new measures: capturing multidimensional inequality, gender disparities and extreme deprivation. “The inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (HDI), Gender Inequality Index and Multidimensional Poverty Index are applied to most countries in the world and provide important new insights,” she said
She concluded by saying that UNDP takes pride in its support for this intellectually independent and innovative report for the past two decades, but also that it has never been a UNDP product alone: it is the outcome of the development thinking and innovation of many people around the globe who believe that the real objective of development efforts and the real wealth of a nation is its own people.
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“I am pleased to share with you here today that the Islamic Republic of Iran has continued to make great achievements in a number of areas, as a result of which its ranking has changed from 88 in 2009 to 70 in 2010 which shows significant progress on human development,” she said here Thursday.
Addressing a press conference on the occasion of the global launch of the Human Development Report (HDR) 2010 and the 20th Anniversary of the HDR, she said since the beginning, the Human Development concept and its report were based on a simple, yet important principle: national development should be measured not only by national income, but should also consider other elements such as life expectancy and literacy.
“Consequently, during the past 20 years, HDRs have covered different issues that impact human development and successfully advanced a central thesis: that people should be at the center of all development activities,” Vidal added.
Referring to the original concept and vision of the initiators of the global UNDP Human Development Reports, she said the late Mahbub Ul-Haq and the Noble Laureate Amartya Sen have guided 20 years of research that have strengthened the Human Development paradigm throughout the world. By now, more than 600 national human development reports have been researched, written and published by development thinkers in their respective countries.
The UNDP Official said many countries have made great gains in health and education despite only modest growth in income, while some countries with strong economic performance over the decades have failed to make similarly impressive progress in life expectancy, schooling and overall living standards.
“The Report this year, for example, reveals that Asian countries have led development progress, and have almost doubled the attainment of the Human Development Index (HDI) in the past 40 years,” she added.
Vidal pointed out that one very special innovation of the 2010 Global HDR is the addition of three new measures: capturing multidimensional inequality, gender disparities and extreme deprivation. “The inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (HDI), Gender Inequality Index and Multidimensional Poverty Index are applied to most countries in the world and provide important new insights,” she said
She concluded by saying that UNDP takes pride in its support for this intellectually independent and innovative report for the past two decades, but also that it has never been a UNDP product alone: it is the outcome of the development thinking and innovation of many people around the globe who believe that the real objective of development efforts and the real wealth of a nation is its own people.
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