Poverty Events


NHDR Workshop for the Arab States
Achieving Excellence in NHDRs

Cairo, 17 - 19 February 2003

Post-Workshop Documentation
Workshop Final Report 
Workshop Evaluation Comments
Workshop Background
Concept and Information Note List of Participants
Preliminary Agenda Note on Logistical Arrangements
Status of NHDRs in the Arab Region  
Corporate Policy on NHDRs
NHDR Corporate Policy in Arabic
NHDR Corporate Policy in English
NHDR Corporate Policy in French
 
Peer Review Guidelines
Memo from Mr. Zephrin Diabre on Peer Review
Peer Review System for NHDRs
 
Guidance Note
Environment Guidance Note
Gender Guidance Note
HIV-AIDS Guidance Note
Conflict Prevention Guidance Note
 
General Resources
Checklist for preparation of NHDRs
Reviewing NHDRs on the basis of the Corporate Policy Standards
NHDR Unit/HDRO homepage for NHDR Resources
Structures of Support. Recommendations from the Beirut Global NHDR Retreat, June 2001
 
The Human Development Concept
UNDP. 1990. HD Report 1990. Oxford University Press: New York. Ch.1
Sen, Amartya 1999 A decade of HD. Journal of Human Development N
Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko. 2002. Rescuing the HD  Concept from the HDI: Reflections on a New Agenda   
Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko. 2002. Operationalising Amartya Sen's ideas on capabilities, development, freedom and human rights
Chapter 1, Human Development Report 2002: HD - past, present and future
Fergany, Nader.  2002. The Institutional Context of Human Development in the Arab World, AlMishkat Centre for Research
 
Operationalizing Human Development
Streeten, Paul 1999 Components of a future development strategy: The importance of HD. Finance & Development 36(4). Washington.
Ranis, Gustav & Frances Stewart, Strategies for success in HD Journal of HD 1,1, 49-70, 2000
Inge Kaul & Saraswathi Menon, 1993 HD: From Concept to Action, A 10-Point Agenda HDRO Paper 7
Keith Griffin and Terry McKinley, 1992 Towards a HD Strategy HDRO Paper
 
Measurments
Anand, Sudhir & Amartya Sen 1993. HD Index: Methodology & Measurement. HD Report Office Paper No.12 UNDP, NY
UNDP 2001 HD Report 2001. Oxford University Press: NY Technical Note 1: Calculating the HD Indices
A. Halis Akder, 1994 A Means to Closing Gaps: Disaggregated HD Index HDRO Occasional Paper 18.
Jahan, Selim. 2000. Measurements of HD Seven Questions.
Jahan, Selim. 2000. Measuring HD: Evolution of the HD Index
Sudhir Anand & Amartya Sen, 2000 The Income Component of HD Index , Journal of HD
 
Poverty and Unemployment
UNDP. 1997. HD Report 1997: Overview . Oxford University Press: New York.
Anand, Sudhir & Amartya K Sen. 1996. Concepts of HD and Poverty: A Multidimensional Perspective' in HD Papers 1997. UNDP, NY.
SM Ahsan, 2001 Growth Governance and Poverty: A Cross-country Analysis
Fergany, Nader, 2002 Aspect of Labor Migration and Unemployment in the Arab Region the 4th Mediterranean Development Forum (MDF4), Amman-Jordan 6-9 October 2002
Ali, Ali A. G. and Ibrahim A. Elbadawi. 2002 Poverty and the Labor Market in the Arab World: The Role of Inequality and Growth The 4th Mediterranean Development Forum (MDF4),Jordan 6-9 October 2002
Doraid, Moez, 2000  HD & Poverty in the Arab States The 3rd Mediterranean Development Forum (MDF3), Cairo-Egypt, March 2000
 
Governance, Human Rights, Decentralization
Fawaz, Mona, 2002 Reflections on Best Practices in Governance in ESCWA Countries. The 4th Mediterranean Development Forum (MDF4), Amman-Jordan 6-9 October 2002
UNDP, 2000. HD Report 2000: Ch.1 Oxford University Press: NY.
Jeni Klugman, 1994 Decentralization : A Survey of Literature from a HD Perspective HDRO
Naomi Sakr, October 2001, Background paper for HDR 2002, Poverty Eradication and Democracy in the Developing World: Civil Society, Media and Accountability in the Arab Region. HDRO
 
Information and Communication Technology
Moez Doraid, 2001 Presentation by SURF-AS Coordinator during the launch of the global HD Report for the year 2001. 
 
Social Development Capital
Abdel Gadir Ali, Ali. 2002  Building Human Capital for Economic Development in the Arab Countries.(MDF4)
 
Gender
UNDP 1995. HD Report 1995. Oxford University Press: New York. Overview
Sudhir Anand & Amartya Sen, 1995. Gender Inequality in HD: Theories and Measurement HDRO 
Elson, Diane and Nilufer Cagatay 1999. Engendering Macroeconomic Policy and Budgets for Sustainable Development.  First Global Forum on HD, NY
 
Conflict and Human Security
HD Report 1994: New Dimensions of Human Security NY, Oxford University Press Chapter 2: New Dimensions of Human Security
Stewart, Frances. 2001. Horizontal Inequalities: A Neglected Dimension of Development
Stewart, Frances, V. Fitzgerald et al. 2001. War & Underdevelopment Oxford Univ. Press, Vol1 Ch.1 & 9
 
Globalization
UNDP. 1999. HD Report 1999: Ch.2  Oxford University Press: New York.
 
Millennium Development Goals and Human Development
Millennium Development Goals
NDP - HDRO, 2002, Working paper #1 - The Millennium Development Goals: commitments and prospects
NHDRs and MDGRs:  Mutually Supportive Exercises