Ideas, Innovation, Impact
How Human Development Reports Influence Change
Did you know that Egypt's Governorates now use the HDI to target the 58 lowest ranking sub-administrative units, or that Kosovo’s HDR recommendations led to a Law to carry out a population and housing census, and the report also helped prompt adoption of a new law on decentralization?
These examples and over 20 more are included in this publication, which documents outstanding country level impacts from sub-national, national and regional Human Development Reports.
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Impact Publication [305 KB]
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If you are part of an HDR authoring team, we encourage you to share other examples of innovative HDR ideas and impacts by submitting new examples.
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