Human Development

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Work for Human Development
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What is “Human Development’?

The true aim of development is not only to

boost incomes, but also to maximize human
choices – by enhancing human rights,
freedoms, capabilities and opportunities and
by enabling people to lead long, healthy and
creative lives.

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Human Development “Index” - HDI

The human development concept is

complemented with a measure - the
Human Development Index (HDI) - that
assesses human well-being from a broad
perspective, going beyond income.

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Human Development Reports – since

1990Human Development Index (HDI) ranking:
composite index
- to lead a long and healthy life, measured
by life expectancy at birth;
- the ability to acquire knowledge, measured
by mean years of schooling and expected
years of schooling;
- the ability to achieve a decent standard of
living, measured by gross national income
per capita.
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Human Development Reports – since

1990
Four other composite indices.
• The Inequality-adjusted HDI discounts the HDI
according to the extent of inequality.
• The Gender Development Index compares
female and male HDI values.
• The Gender Inequality Index highlights women’s
empowerment.
• The Multidimensional Poverty Index measures
non-income dimensions of poverty.

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Human Development Reports – since

1990

2015 special focus:

“Work for Human Development”

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What does ‘work’ mean in 2017?

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Rethinking ‘work’
Work enables people to earn a livelihood and be economically secure. It is
critical for equitable economic growth, poverty reduction and gender
equality. It also allows people to fully participate in society while affording
them a sense of dignity and worth. Work can contribute to the public good,
and work that involves caring for others builds cohesion and bonds within
families and communities.

Work also strengthens societies. Human beings working together not only
increase material well-being, they also accumulate a wide body of
knowledge that is the basis for cultures and civilizations. And when all this
work is environmentally friendly, the benefits extend across generations.
Ultimately, work unleashes human potential, human creativity and the
human spirit.

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The 2017 Human Development Report

• Examines the links between work - not just jobs - and

human development.

• Analyses the implications of the changing world of work.

• Examines the gender imbalances in paid and unpaid

work

• Focuses on sustainable work

• Considers how to turn challenges into opportunities, so

that work enriches human lives not just economies.

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Work -
Much More
Than Jobs

Report Fig 1.1

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Work and human development: the links are not

always automatic

• Some work damages human development – child labour

(168 million), forced labour (21 million) and some work
put workers at risk – miners (30 million)

• More than 1.5 billion workers are in vulnerable jobs and

nearly more half of women employed are in vulnerable
jobs

• About 204 million are unemployed of which 74 million are

youths

• 830 million people are working poor – working but living

on less than $ 2 a day

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The changing world of

work

• Globalization and digital

revolution

• Double-edged swords:
opportunities and risks

• Gains for some losses for

others

Figure 3.3

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Gender imbalances in paid and unpaid work

• Women contribute 52% of global work, men 48%. Men’s

share of paid work is nearly twice that of women - 38% vs.
21%

• But – when they are paid – women earn 24% less than men;
they represent only 22% of senior business managers

• Women work 3 of every 4 hours of unpaid work and they

bear an unequal share of care burden – 83% of 53 million
domestic workers are women

• Equal pay, decent parental leave and tackling the social

norms that exclude women from work are key intervention
areas
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Sustainable work for sustainable development

• Sustainable work promotes human development - by
sustaining the planet and also by ensuring work for future
generations

• Sustainable work requires termination, transformation and

creation of work

• Renewable energy sector alone employs 8 million workers

• The SDGs have key implications for sustainable work

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Key Policy Options

Clusters of strategies for:

• Creating work opportunities

• Ensuring workers’ wellbeing

• Pursuing targeted action

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A Call To Action

• New Social Contract

• Global Deal

• Decent Work Agenda

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HDI
• India 2017 HDI rank is 131

HDI value HDI rank Life Expected Mean GNI per

expectancy years of years of capita
at birth schooling schooling (PPP US$)
Norway 0.747 81 71.0 15.1 11.3 8,178
Australia 0.788 56 69.4 15.0 11.4 20,867
Switzerland 0.798 50 70.1 14.7 12.0 22,352

Germany 0.748 — 72.3 13.6 10.0 12,791

Denmark 0.744 — 75.1 13.6 8.2 13,961

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