Throughout history water has confronted humanity with some of its greatest challenges. Water is a source of life and a natural resource that sustains our environments and supports livelihoods – but it

his 25 Human Development Report takes stock of human development,including progress towards the MDGs. Looking beyond statistics,it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises

Migration,both within and beyond borders,has become an increasingly prominent theme in domestic and international debates,and is the topic of the 29 Human Development Report (HDR9). The starting point

The 21 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 199,the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often

The 211 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could

The 21st century is witnessing a profound shift in global dynamics,driven by the fast-rising new powers of the developing world. China has overtaken Japan as the world's second biggest economy,lifting

An estimated 3 % of the global population,or 185 million people consume illicit drugs annually. Among this population are people from almost every country on earth and from every walk of life

The negative impacts of the illicit drug trade touch every society in the world. This year's World Drug Report estimates that 2 million people,or 5% of the global population age 15-64,have consumed