Alert Peru. This week the United Nations (UN) presented their new Human Development Report (HDR) this year and concern for our region in Latin America is that even has low human development indicators, has actually the highest social inequality and bias in this sense is described as the most unequal region in the world. That despite the progress in the last decade as the report argues, the region remains trapped by the inequality of income. In the case of our country in the comparison made between Peru (63) and Ukraine (69), we see that are very close positions on the HDI. When applied to the meter of inequality in Peru, the average low is 31%, while in Ukraine the HDI only 8% lower. This illustrates how large are the effects of inequality on human development.
In fact in Latin America and the Caribbean, the study argues that despite improving by almost a third in relation to HR 1970, the current level is still below the world average. However, since 1970 the average life expectancy increased from 60 to 74 years and rises to 79 in Costa Rica, Chile and Cuba, but drops to 62 in Haiti, the lowest level .. The case highlights is that of Bolivia to increase by 20 units (from 46 in 1970 to the current 66). The report includes 32 Latin American and Caribbean countries and presents Haiti as the worst performer in the place total of 169 145 of the statistics contained in and without taking into account the impact of the earthquake in January. Moreover, the union report on Cuba as a more egalitarian society in Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of gender.
Across the world, the HDR notes progress in life expectancy, school enrollment, literacy and income, and stresses that the countries analyzed only 40 years Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Zimbabwe, have lower human development today than in 1970. The report indicates that half the world's poor, is in the countries of South Asia (844 million), compared to a total of 458 million poor people in sub-Saharan African countries.
The document also includes the effects of the 2008 crisis, which has destroyed 34 million jobs and caused another 64 million people living below the poverty line. Also in this report has added three new indices that complement the human development index (HDI) traditional, referred to inequality in general, gender inequality and poverty multidimensional (IPM) that have been analyzed in 169 countries around the world. On the other hand argues that those who move are less affected by the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa and the former Soviet Union, where adult mortality is increasing, with a current life expectancy lower than in the decade of the seventies.
The most significant progress in HDI which are known to nature "miracle" of economic growth, China, Indonesia and South Korea, but so did Nepal, Oman and Tunisia. In fact, 20 countries greater human development under economies richer, with Norway in the lead, followed by Australia, New Zealand, USA, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, France, Israel, Finland, Iceland, Belgium, Denmark and Spain (ranked 20).
addition to the above, the report notes that about 1,750 million people live in poverty multidimensional, reflecting deprivations in health, education and standard of living and are 1,440 million people living on less than $ 1.25 daily.
The first report is 20 years old
So 20 years after developing the first HDI is still valid his assertion that "the real wealth of a nation is its people", and although the world is a better place than in 1990 or 1970, "the gap in human development remains enormous."
That's the HDI in Latin America
45.
Chile 0.783 46.
Argentina 0.775 52.
Uruguay 0.765 54.
Panama 0.755 56.
Mexico 0.750 62.
Costa Rica 0.725 63.
Peru 0.723 73.
Brazil 0.699 75. Venezuela 0.696
77.
Ecuador 0.695 79.
0.689 Colombia 88.
Dominican Republic 0.663 90.
El Salvador 0.659 95.
Bolivia 0.643 96.
0.640 Paraguay 106. Honduras 0.604
115.
0.565 Nicaragua 116. Guatemala 0.560
More info?
http://hdr.undp.org/es/
http://www.idhalc-actuarsobreelfuturo.org/site/informe.php
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