Twenty five years ago the first Human Development Report in 1990 began with a simple notion: that development is about enlarging people’s choices focusing broadly on the richness of human lives rather than narrowly on the richness of economies. Work is a major foundation for both the richness of economies and the richness of human lives but has tended to be conceptualized in economic terms rather than in human development terms. The 2015 Human Development Report goes beyond that convention in directly linking work to the richness of human lives.
Human development is about enlarging human choices focusing on the richness of human lives rather than simply the richness of economies (see infographic). Critical to this process is work, which engages people all over the world in different ways and takes up a major part of their lives. Of the world’s 7.3 billion people, 3.2 billion are in jobs, and others engage in care work, creative work, voluntary work or other kinds of work or are preparing themselves as future workers. Some of this work contributes to human development, and some does not. Some work even damages human development.
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Keywords:
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS, FREEDOM, POVERTY, POVERTY MITIGATION, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, GENDER EQUALITY, LIVELIHOOD, DISCRIMINATION, HEALTH, CHILD LABOUR, FORCED LABOUR, GLOBALIZATION, CIVILIZATION, EDUCATION, HUMAN SECURITY, PEACE, WOMENS EMPLOYMENT, LABOUR MARKETS, SOCIAL JUSTICE, WOMENS EMPOWERMENT, TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS, MIGRANT WORKERS
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UNDP
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Social and Institutional Developoment
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- Development
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