Since its headline-making debut, the Human Development Report has become an essential resource for development specialists, economists, and political scientists

Work is constantly reshaped by technological progress. New ways of production are adopted, markets expand, and societies evolve. But some changes provoke more a

Rising densities of human settlements, migration and transport to reduce distances to market, and specialization and trade facilitated by fewer international di

The Human Development Report, now in its seventh edition, updates the unique Human Development Indicators comparing human development in most countries of the w

"Institutions fix the confines of and impose form upon the activities of human beings."-Walton Hamilton, 'Institutions', 1932.The 'World Development Report 2002