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Monday, November 08, 2010 - 09.06 GMT |
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SL's human
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Sri Lanka’s Human Development Index (HDI) has progressively increased up to 0.658 in 2010 compared to 0.513 in 1980.
This increase is mainly due to favourable social indicators of literacy and life expectancy. Sri Lanka is also recorded to have a high level of gender equality.
The 25th anniversary issue of the Human Development Report titled ,'The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development ' was launched on November 04th by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, who helped devise the HDI for the first Human Development Report in 1990, together with the late economist Mahbub ul Haq, the series founder.
The 2010 Human Development Report includes the HDI rankings of 169 countries. Norway, Australia, New Zealand and the USA, occupy the top four spots of the list and have been categorized as “Very High Human Development Countries,” along with the 38 other countries that have been listed in this category.
For full report please visit:
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Complete.pdf
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