Monrovia – The United Nations Development Programme in Liberia will on 09 December launch its 2019 Global Human Development Report (GHDR) in Monrovia at the Monrovia City Hall beginning at 9:00 am. The 2019 Human Development Report will focus on understanding the dimensions of inequality most important to people’s well-being, and what is behind them. Only then can we design the policy options that could effectively tackle it.” – said Pedro Conceição, Director of the Human Development Report Office at UNDP. The 2019 report builds upon the rich history of human development reporting in pioneering new measures of development and upon new partnerships with global experts. Between 2000 and 2018, Liberia’s HDI value increased from 0.422 to 0.465, an increase of 10.2 percent.

Source: Front Page Africa December 04, 2019 08:48 UTC