"The other nine “ Top Movers” are China, Indonesia." Indonesia? Really? Wow....

2010 Human Development Report:40-year Trends Analysis Shows Poor Countries Making Faster Development Gains

HDRO/UNDP4 November 2010

20th anniversary UNDP report finds long-term progress in health, education not determined by income; introduces new indices for gender, poverty, inequality
United Nations, 4 November 2010—Most developing countries made dramatic yet often underestimated progress in health, education and basic living standards in recent decades, with many of the poorest countries posting the greatest gains, reveals a detailed new analysis of long-term Human Development Index (HDI) trends in the 2010 Human Development Report, released here today.
Yet patterns of achievement vary greatly, with some countries losing ground since 1970, the 2010 Human Development Report shows. Introducing three new indices, the 20th anniversary edition of the Report documents wide inequalities within and among countries, deep disparities between women and men on a wide range of development indicators, and the prevalence of extreme multidimensional poverty in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
The Human Development Reports, commissioned annually by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990, are editorially independent from UNDP.

The 2010 Report—The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development—was launched today by 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 with the late economist Mahbub ul Haq, the series founder. The Human Development Reports and the HDI challenged purely economic measures of national achievement and helped lay the conceptual foundation for the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, calling for consistent global tracking of progress in health, education and overall living standards.

Women set to gain more say after quake

Published on The Jakarta Post (http://www.thejakartapost.com/)
Women set to gain more say after quake
The Jakarta Post | Mon, 03/08/2010 3:29 PM | National

Arghea Desafti Hapsari
Tri Yasmawati never thought she would be sitting in the same class as her son, a second grader in an elementary school in the Lubuk Kilangan subdistrict of Padang, West Sumatra.

But when the 9-year-old refused to go to school out of fear another earthquake would hit, like the one that damaged his house on Sept. 30, 2009, Tri accompanied him to classes.
“I was traumatized by the quake but I had to deal with my children’s trauma as well,” she said. Tri, however, counts herself lucky when compared to many other women in the region.
She was among the few who recognized disadvantaged groups of people, including women, were greatly impacted by the quake. The member of LP2M, an NGO in Padang focusing on community analyses and empowerment, received training on gender sensitive post-disaster management late