Launch of Human Development Report 2011
Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

2 November 2011

HDR 2011. Source: UNDP

 

The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals. Bold action is needed on both fronts, the Report contends, if the recent human development progress for most of the world’s poor majority is to be sustained, for the benefit of future generations as well as for those living today. Past Reports have shown that living standards in most countries have been rising - and converging - for several decades now. Yet the 2011 Report projects a disturbing reversal of those trends if environmental deterioration and social inequalities continue to intensify, with the least developed countries diverging downwards from global patterns of progress by 2050.

 

 

To access the Global, Regional and National press releases, downloads and fact sheets, please click the thumbnails below:

 

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	Regional Latin America and the Caribbean

 

 

	National Trinidad and Tobago

Source: http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports

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