Human development report 2010. The real wealth of nations: Pathways to human development

For the first time since 1990, the Human Development Report looks back at the past several decades and identifies trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways to human development show that there is no single formula for sustainable progress'and that long-term gains can and have been achieved even without consistent economic growth. In terms of nutrition, the report notes that health and education have improved globally in the past 20 years but inequalities between countries have increased. The 2010 Report also introduces three measures to the family of human development indices: the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, the Gender Inequality Index to better measure inequality; and the Multidimensional Poverty Index which includes a nutrition indicator (among 10 others): the existence in a household of an adult or child in a wasting status with low body mass index).These measures incorporate recent advances in theory and measurement, and support the centrality of inequality and poverty in the human development framework.
The Report's summary is available for downloading below and the full report is available here : http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Complete_reprint.pdf.
For more information, visit: http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/mpi/->http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/mpi/ and for more information on its measure, visit: http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2010/papers/HDRP_2010_11.pdf.