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2010 Global Human Development Report: Republic of Moldova on the Way of Human Development between 1970 and 2010

Human Development Report Anniversary edition ranks the Republic of Moldova 99th out of 169 world countries according to the Human Development Index.

November 5 , 2010-- The 2010 Global Human Development Report, launched in an Anniversary edition, 20 years after the appearance of the first Report, offers the analysis of progress achieved by states within the last 40 years and ranks the Republic of Moldova as the 99th out of 169 countries according to the Human Development Index which summarizes prospects of a long and healthy life, education state and standards of a decent life.

The Human Development Report, published this year with the title: „The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development” illustrates spectacular progress achieved within the last four decades by majority of the countries during the development in the filed of health, education, life standards and introduces new poverty, gender dimension and inequality indexes in order to render a more comprehensible image of human development.

„The Report shows that people today are healthier, wealthier and better educated than before”, stated Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), on the occasion of the launch of the Global Human Development Report who also paid her first ever visit to the Republic of Moldova on September 9 and 10, 2010 .

„Although not all trends are positive, there are many things which the world countries can do in order to improve people’s life, even in adverse conditions. Therefore, there is a need for a courageous administration at the local level, as well as a continuous commitment of the International community”, said Helen Clark.

Looking beyond 2010, the Global Report surveys critical aspects of human development, from political freedoms and empowerment to sustainability and human security, and outlines a broader agenda for research and policies to respond to these challenges.

„The 2010 GHDR report reaffirms the basic concept of human development as the expansion of people’s freedoms to live long, healthy and creative lives; to advance other goals they have reason to value; and to engage actively in shaping development equitably and sustainably on a shared planet. People are both the beneficiaries and drivers of human development, as individuals and in groups”, said Matilda Dimovska, Deputy Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme in Moldova.

According to 2010 Global Human Development Report, Moldova Human Development Index is 0.623 and it belongs to the group of countries with medium human development. It ranks 99th out of 169 countries and territories for which calculations have been made. Between 1999 and 2010, the value of Human Development Index in Moldova increased from 0.616 to 0.623 which represents a 1% increase or average annual increase of about 0.1%.

In the vicinity of 99th position of the Republic of Moldova in the Global Human Development Report 2010 is Botswana (98) and Mongolia (100).

The first three countries ranked in 2010 according to the Human Development Index are as follows: Norway (with the Human Development Index of 0.938), Australia (0.937) and New Zealand (0.907), the ranking ending with Nigeria (0.261), Democratic Republic of the Congo (0.239)and Zimbabwe(0.140).

Human Development Index

Together with the launch of the 2010 Global Human Development Report, Human Development Index (HDI) which is a part of the Report is also presented. HDI represents a summary indicator of people's well-being, combining three dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life (measured by life expectancy at birth), a good level of education (measured by literacy in adults, combined with the total rate of school enrolment) and conditions for decent life (measured by GDP per capita).

This year, the Human Development Report introduces three new indexes: The Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), which reduces mean value of human development owing to inequality in fields of health, education and incomes, The Gender Inequality Index (GII), which measures disparities in labour, health, education and empowerment, affecting women, and The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), identifying important lacks in health, education and life standards thus affecting up to 1.7 millions of people in the world.

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ABOUT THIS REPORT: Since its inception in 1990, the Human Development Report has provided fresh insights into some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. The Human Development Report is an independent yearly publication of the United Nations Development Programme. Jeni Klugman is the lead author of the 2010 Report, which is translated into more than a dozen languages and launched in more than 100 countries annually. The Report is published in English by Palgrave Macmillan. Complete texts of the 2010 Report and all previous Reports since 1990 are available for free downloading in major UN languages on the Report website: http://hdr.undp.org/

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