The Human Development Reports are a long-running series of publications from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that have been informing global development discussions since 1990, each one focused on different themes and aspects of human development that are relevant to the major issues at play internationally at the time of publishing.
Published in March this year, the most recent Human Development Report (titled ‘Breaking the gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarized world’) aims to shed light on the problems that are causing uneven development progress, intensifying inequality and escalating political polarisation in our world today, and suggests solutions for a better way forward.
In this podcast, Dr Pedro Conceição, lead author of the new 2023/24 report and director of the Human Development Report Office at the UNDP, talks to UNU-MERIT’s Partnerships & Liaison Specialist Dr Diego Salama about the most important conclusions from this latest edition, the impacts of political polarisation on development and the future of multilateralism:
