<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-size: 10pt; "></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; color: rgb(120, 120, 120); line-height: 18px; ">Human Development Report 2010 —20th Anniversary Edition</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><h2 style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px;
padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.25; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development</font></span></h2><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The first <em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;">Human Development Report </em>in <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr1990/" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-color:initial;font-weight:normal;
font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(48, 114, 217);text-decoration:none;">1990</a> opened with the simply stated premise that has guided all subsequent Reports: “People are the real wealth of a nation.” By backing up this assertion with an abundance of empirical data and a new way of thinking about and measuring development, the <em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;">Human Development Report </em>has had a profound impact on development policies around the world.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This 20th anniversary edition features introductory reflections by the Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen, who worked with series founder Mahbub ul Haq on the conception of the first <em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:italic;
vertical-align:baseline;">Human Development Report </em>and contributed to and inspired many successive volumes.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways to human development show that there is no
single formula for sustainable progress—and that impressive long-term gains can and have been achieved even without consistent economic growth.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Looking beyond 2010, this Report surveys critical aspects of human development, from political freedoms and empowerment to sustainability and human security, and outlines a broader agenda for research and policies to respond to these challenges.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As Amartya Sen writes: “Twenty years after the appearance of the first <em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;">Human Development
Report, </em>there is much to celebrate in what has been achieved. But we also have to be alive to ways of improving the assessment of old adversities and of recognizing—and responding to—new threats that endanger human well-being and freedom.“</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The 20th anniversary edition is a response to that human development imperative.</font></span></p></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span"
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