Media
12 June 2016
How has the world of child labour changed since you first got involved in the field? What are some of the positive changes and some of the less positive ones?
When I started in 1981, there was complete ignorance about this serious problem. People easily ignored it with a common perception that they are poor children, and they are working,...
09 June 2016
There is no denying that conflict has far-reaching negative effects, including on employment. But the prevailing understanding of the relationship between conflict and employment does not fully recognize the complexity of this relationship – a shortcoming that undermines effective employment policies in fragile states.
The conventional wisdom is...
08 June 2016
Chaque année, l’Indice de Développement Humain (IDH), indice phare des rapports sur le développement humain, fait les gros titres à travers le monde, tandis que les pays suivent leur progrès en matière d’éducation, de santé et de revenu. Bien que l’IDH ne soit pas une mesure complète de développement humain, c’est une valeur de bien-être élargie...
01 June 2016
Cada año, la publicación del Índice de Desarrollo Humano (IDH), el indicador insignia de los Informes sobre Desarrollo Humano, acapara titulares en todo el mundo. Y aunque el IDH no es una medida integral – sí es, sin embargo, un indicador del bienestar humano en un sentido amplio, que además demuestra cómo, en los últimos 25 años, las medidas...
01 June 2016
Each year, the Human Development Index (HDI), the signature index of the Human Development Reports (HDR), captures headlines across the globe, as countries track their progress in education, health and income. Although the HDI is not a comprehensive measure of human development, it is a broader assessment of human well-being and it shows how,...
03 May 2016
There is a charming anecdote about the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. According to the version our mathematics teacher in Istanbul told us, a class of high school students in Germany was misbehaving (much like we were), and to punish them, their teacher told them to add up all of the numbers from one to one hundred. One of the students...
26 April 2016
Centuries of irrigated agriculture and rice farming have been embedded in Sri Lanka’s cultural traditions, enriching the lives of her people in all aspects. The relevance of these traditional occupations to the demands of a modern economy has to be defined now.
Strengthening the national economy for reducing inequality and eliminating poverty is a...