WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2011 / PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The UN's Tuesday release of its annual Human Development Report placed the Democratic Republic of Congo dead last among 187 countries, underscoring the fragility of this resource-rich nation and the significance of the upcoming elections there, where violence will likely ensue if they aren't conducted with fairness and integrity. The DRC, bucking the general trend of improvement in recent years for its Sub-Saharan peers, is losing ground when it comes to national achievement in health, education and income, the basic indication of a country's health, as measured by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). While troubled nations such as Burundi, Mozambique and Niger have posted modest quality ...
If I were looking for a prophet in the modern Middle East, I'd beat a path to Dr. Nader Fergany's door. Nine years ago the director of the Almishkat Centre for Research in Cairo co-authored a prescient report on the Arab world for the United Nations. According to the Arab Human Development Report, autocratic regimes in the region were stifling human development in three areas: governance, women's empowerment and access to knowledge. While these conclusions seem self-evident today, it took considerable courage for three Arab scholars to publish them for an international audience in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. When I was studying at the Foreign Service Institute in preparation for a diplomatic assignment in Israel, the director of Middle East studies was a German Arabist who mainta...
RUN, DON'T WALK, TO HEAD OFF CRISIS The United Nations just released its Human Development Report, "Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world." The key message is that we have 10 years to "reduce" emissions before encountering catastrophic impacts to the planet and all life forms. While this message isn't new, it emphasizes the need to "reduce," versus "curb.
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Bianca DeLille of American Human Development Project, +1- 202-380-5878, bianca@measureofamerica.org
In fact, a recent United Nations Human Development Report revealed that a fifth of the world's people are living in the highest income countries enjoy 86 percent of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 82 percent of the world's export markets, and 68 percent of the world's direct foreign investment. How does one reconcile this paradox of African poverty when, in addition to its reservoir of human resources, our continent has 97 percent of the world's chrome reserves; 85 percent of the world's platinum reserves; 64 percent of the world's manganese reserves; 25 percent of the world's uranium reserves and 13 percent of the world's copper reserves (without mentioning bauxite, nickel and lead); 20 percent of the world's oil trade; 70 percent of the world's cocoa production; one-third of...
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