OVERVIEW |
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Globalization with a human face |
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ten years of human development |
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CHAPTER ONE |
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Human development in this age of globalization |
25 |
The world has changed |
28 |
Global integration—rapid but unbalanced |
30 |
Social fragmentation—reversals in progress and threats to human security |
36 |
CHAPTER TWO |
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New technologies and the global race for knowledge |
57 |
The race for knowledge |
57 |
The new technologies—drivers of globalization |
57 |
Access to the network society—who is in the loop and on the map? |
61 |
The new rules of globalization—shaping the path of technology |
66 |
Impacts on people |
68 |
The need to reshape technology’s path |
72 |
CHAPTER THREE |
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The invisible heart—care and the global economy |
77 |
Human development, capabilities and care |
77 |
Care—or “tender loving care” |
78 |
Globalization and care |
79 |
Care and market rewards |
80 |
Redistributing the costs and responsibilities of care—to family, state and corporation |
80 |
The challenge of care in the global economy |
81 |
CHAPTER FOUR |
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National responses to make globalization work for human development |
84 |
Capturing global opportunities |
84 |
Protecting people against vulnerabilities |
90 |
Overcoming the resource squeeze |
92 |
Generating pro-poor growth—reducing inequalities and enhancing human capabilities |
94 |
Creating effective alliances of national actors |
95 |
Formulating strategies for emerging new issues in the global system |
96 |
CHAPTER FIVE |
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Reinventing global governance—for humanity and equity |
97 |
Putting human concerns and rights at the centre of global governance |
98 |
Protecting human security in economic crisis |
101 |
Reducing other causes of human insecurity |
103 |
Narrowing global gaps |
104 |
Specific actions to strengthen the bargaining position of poor countries in global governance |
108 |
Start now to build the global architecture required for the 21st century |
110 |
All these actions begin with people |
114 |
References |
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SPECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS |
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Ten years of human development Paul Streeten |
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Assessing human development Amartya Sen |
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Partnership with the United Nations Ted Turner |
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BOXES |
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Globalization—what’s really new? |
30 |
Shrinking time, shrinking space, disappearing borders—but for whom? |
31 |
The concept of human security |
36 |
Merry Christmas—and have a Happy New Year elsewhere |
37 |
The collapse of the East Asian financial markets— economies recovering, but human recovery will take longer |
40 |
Buildup and reversal of short-term capital flows—lessons of East Asia |
41 |
Why crime syndicates like globalization |
43 |
What is the Internet? |
58 |
HealthNet for better patient care |
59 |
Defending Gorbachev, defeating the Multilateral Agreement on Investment—how the Internet made a difference |
60 |
Trading places—the rise of data processing |
61 |
Innovating with the Internet |
64 |
Preparing for the information age—set the wheels in motion |
66 |
What is trips? |
67 |
Ethics and technology—a luxury concern? |
72 |
Questioning the ownership of knowledge |
73 |
Rerouting the genetic revolution—the CGIAR proposal |
74 |
If we are going to compete, let it be in a game of our choosing |
78 |
Globalization leads to the feminization of labour—but the outcome is mixed |
80 |
More paid work doesn’t reduce unpaid work |
81 |
Support for men’s child-care responsibilities in Western Europe |
82 |
More trade, more capital, more human deprivation—Russia |
85 |
Opening the Polish economy with institutional reforms |
86 |
Liberalizing foreign investment in India |
87 |
Foreign direct investment for human development in Malaysia |
88 |
Incentives to multinationals—and nationals—in Mauritius |
88 |
Short-term capital controls in Chile |
89 |
Revealing the human trafficking in Eastern Europe and the CIS |
89 |
Social protection for Tunisia’s poor |
90 |
Ireland’s social partnership agreements |
91 |
Upgrading skills and achieving worker flexibility in Sweden |
91 |
Responses to the eroding welfare state |
93 |
NGOs as a powerhouse in national alliances |
96 |
Meeting the challenges of globalization—Fundacion Chile |
96 |
Using national human development reports to outline impacts and priorities |
96 |
Keynes’s vision for global governance |
98 |
The successes and failures of global governance since 1945 |
99 |
Social auditing of multinational corporations |
101 |
Globalization without Poverty—a European initiative |
101 |
Global crime—the international response |
104 |
Renegotiating Lome—one size doesn’t fit all |
105 |
Developing countries and trade—active participation in the millennium round |
106 |
Debt—a need for accelerated action |
107 |
NGOs and global advocacy |
110 |
Global public goods—the missing element |
111 |
5.10 Global public goods—the missing element |
111 |
ANNEX TABLES |
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Trade flows |
45 |
Resource flows |
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Information flows |
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BOX TABLES |
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Declining cost of transport and communications |
30 |
Time spent in paid and unpaid work in Bangladesh, 1995 |
81 |
TABLES |
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Top corporations had sales totalling more than the GDP of many countries in 1997 |
32 |
Unemployment rate in selected OECD countries |
32 |
The Asian crisis hurts distant economies and people |
42 |
Who has real access to intellectual property claims? |
71 |
Trade, economic growth and human development—no automatic link |
85 |
Foreign direct investment, economic growth and human development—no automatic link |
87 |
Adjustment and greater income inequality, 1987-88 to 1993-95 |
92 |
Major and minor collectors of trade taxes, 1990-96 |
92 |
Social welfare systems and income inequality, 1998 |
94 |
Eight heavily indebted poor countries, 1995 |
108 |
External debt of the 41 heavily indebted poor countries, 1992-96 |
108 |
Who gets aid? |
108 |
Global institutions and their membership |
109 |
FIGURES |
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Stark disparities between rich and poor in global opportunities |
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Global integration has progressed rapidly but unevenly ... with wide disparity between countries |
26 |
International telephone calls |
28 |
Less than a third of television programming in Latin America originates in the region |
34 |
Domestic film industries struggle to hold market share |
34 |
Uneven ratification of human rights conventions |
35 |
Inequality has worsened both globally ..and within countries |
38 |
Portfolio flows have brought severe volatility to many markets |
41 |
Provisioning for human development |
44 |
How long before new technologiesgain widespread acceptance? |
58 |
Software exports from India |
61 |
Teledensitv |
62 |
Internet users—a global enclave |
63 |
orldwide mergers and acquisitions |
67 |
The race for patents |
68 |
Drug prices and patent costs |
69 |
Four sources of caring labour |
79 |
Differences in human development—Botswana and Mali, mid-1980 |
85 |
Reduced revenue generation—loss of fiscal strength |
93 |
Growth—pro-poor or pro-rich? |
94 |
Subsidies to the poor or the rich? |
95 |
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS |
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What do the human development indices reveal? |
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Monitoring human development: enlarging people’s choices ... |
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Human development index |
134 |
Gender-related development index |
138 |
Gender empowerment measure |
142 |
Human poverty in developing countries |
146 |
Human poverty in industrialized countries, Eastern Europe and the CIS |
149 |
Trends in human development and per capita income |
151 |
Trends in human development and economic growth |
155 |
Technical note |
159 |
To lead a long and healthy life .. |
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Progress in survival |
168 |
Health profile |
172 |
..to acquire knowledge .. |
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Education imbalances |
176 |
..to have access to the resources needed for a decent standard of living. |
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Economic performance |
180 |
Macroeconomic structure |
184 |
Resource use imbalances |
188 |
Aid flows from DAC member countries |
192 |
Aid and debt by recipient country |
193 |
while preserving it for future generations . |
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Demographic trends |
197 |
Energy use |
201 |
Profile of environmental degradation |
203 |
19Managing the environment |
209 |
ensuring human security . |
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20Food security and nutrition |
211 |
21Job security |
215 |
22Profile of political life |
217 |
23Crime |
221 |
24Personal distress |
225 |
and achieving equality for all women and men |
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25Gender gaps in education |
229 |
26Gender gaps in economic activity |
233 |
27 Gender gaps in work burden and time allocation |
237 |
28 Gender gaps in political participation |
238 |
29Status of selected international human rights instruments |
242 |
30 Basic indicators for other UN member countries |
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Note on statistics in the Human Development Report |
247 |
Primary statistical references |
251 |
Definitions of statistical terms |
253 |
Classification of countries |
257 |
Key to countries |
260 |
Index to indicators |
261 |