Human Development Report 2011.

I woke up 7 in the morning, just to watch this interesting live webcast. For a note, it means a lot for a college student to wake up early on the day that has no morning schedule.

The webcast briefly overviewed the newly updated human development index for the year 2011 and possible challenges for sustainable growth of human well being, equally for every nations. According to the presentation, two central challenges for the upcoming years are on equity amongst the nations and environmental sustainability. In the mean time, on going world issue includes, the people in disadvantageous part of the world taking both vulnerability and deprivation, as known as double burden, and climate change effecting the poorest nations that are incapable of self-recovery.

The detail report can be found on the United Nations Development Programme website: http://hdr.undp.org/en/