This concept paper contributes to the broader thinking underway for the 2026 Human Development Report, which will explore ...

At the Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC), global leaders from the public sector, business, science, and civil society have jointly endorsed the Hamburg Declaration on Responsible AI for the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has broken into a dizzying gallop. While AI feats grab headlines, they privilege technology in a make-believe vacuum, obscuring what really matters: people’s choices. The ...

Human development progress is experiencing an unprecedented slowdown according to a new report released today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The report shows how Artificial ...

India’s human development progress continues amid global challenges: UNDP’s 2025 Human Development Report highlights the role of AI in shaping future possibilities India’s HDI value increases from ...

As Pakistan stands at the crossroads of challenge and opportunity, 2024 marked a transformative chapter in its development journey. The UNDP Pakistan Annual Report 2024 captures a story of resilience, ...

Two years into the war, Sudan remains the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with 25 million people struggling to get enough to eat and over 12 million displaced. Nearly everyone has a tale of ...

Between 2008 and 2023, multidimensional poverty in Latin America fell significantly—from 45.8% to 25.4%. This steady decline, averaging 1.4% per year, was only interrupted in 2020 due to the impacts ...

2015 marks 25 years since the first Human Development Report introduced a new approach for advancing human flourishing. And while the expression “human development” is widely used, it is understood in ...

The Human Development Report Office (HDRO) hosted a colloquium entitled, “Human Security at 30: New Horizons in the AI Age” at the United Nations Headquarters. Attended by more than 300 policymakers, ...

Olena Kozubovska is a journalist in Mykolaiv Oblast, one of the most heavily mined areas of Ukraine. “Mine safety is my topic, and I often do stories about explosive objects, the rules of handling ...

This 2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report overlays violent conflict data with multidimensional poverty data to better understand their interlinkages across countries and over time.