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MaximsNewsNetwork: 04 November 2010 -- UNTV: United Nations, New York -- A United Nations (UN) flagship report on comprehensive human development said the majority of developing countries have made dramatic but underestimated gains in health and education in recent decades, despite the fact that severe inequalities within and between countries remain; the Human Development Report (HDR), released annually by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), assesses the state of human development on the basis of health, education and income indicators, as an alternative to purely macroeconomic assessments of national progress.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the report at headquarters in New York along with UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, who helped devise the HDI (Human Development Index), for the first Human Development Report in 1990.

In this 20th edition, the report reviews trends over the past four decades and concludes that people today are generally healthier, wealthier and better educated than they were in 1970.

These advances are not directly linked with national economic growth, showing that impressive long-term gains can and have been made even without consistent economic performance, according to the report.
Globally, life expectancy has risen from 59 years in 1970 to 70 in 2010, the report states.

Primary and secondary school enrolment has risen from 55 per cent to 70 per cent in the same period. While all regions shared in this progress, there were wide variations in scope; for example, life expectancy rose by 18 years in the Arab world but 8 years in sub-Saharan Africa.

Among the top ten countries showing marked improvement are Oman, Nepal and Laos, while Ethiopia, Cambodia and Benin are in the top 20 -- countries which the report notes are "not typically described as success stories."

The report also highlights serious inequalities, both within and between countries. Over the past 40 years, countries at the lower end of the Human Development Index experienced an improvement of less than 20 per cent, compared to the top-performing group, which averaged gains of 54 per cent.

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