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Planetary Pressures-adjusted HDI
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recently released the Human Development Report, 2020. India ranked 131 in the Human Development Index (HDI). Usually, the UNDP uses three major parameters to calculate the Human Development Index based on which the countries are ranked. They are Life Expectancy at birth, maternal mortality rate and political participation of ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Category: International Current Affairs • Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: Gender Inequality • Human development • Human Development Index • Human Development Report • India-UNDP • malnutrition • PHDI • Planetary Pressures-adjusted HDI • UNDP • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) • Women Empowerment
Human Development Report, 2020
The United Nations Development Programme recently released the Human Development Report. According to the report India slipped to 131st rank among 189 countries in the Human Development Index. Human development index of India was 0.640. In 2019 India ranked at 129. This year’s index has incorporated new parameters namely CO2 emission and Material foot print ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: Human Development Index • Human Development Report • Literacy • Maternal Mortality Rate • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNDP releases 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
The 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) has recently released by UN Development Programme (UNDP), the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). As per the report, India lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2016 & recorded the fastest reductions in the MPI values during the period with strong improvements in ..
Topics: Development economics • Economics • Economy • Human Development Report • International development • Measuring poverty • MPI • Multidimensional Poverty Index • Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative • Poverty • Poverty in India • United Nations Development Programme
Human Development Report 2011
The Human Development Report (HDR) is an annual publication of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The report was first launched in 1990 by the Pakistani Economist Mahbub ul Haq and Indian Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. Its goal was to place people at the centre of the development process in terms of economic debate, policy ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Topics: Academic disciplines • Development economics • Economics • Economy • Gender Inequality Index • Human Development Index • Human Development Report • Human Poverty Index • Multidimensional Poverty Index • Poverty in the Philippines • United Nations Development Programme