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Fuel for a green Viksit Bharat
June 12, 2025 11:41 am
Conversations on optimum use of uranium and thorium hold the key to the success of government’s nuclear mission
Knowledge Nugget: Why Human Development Report 2025 is UPSC essential
May 17, 2025 10:54 am
AI’s impact is not inevitable — it is a matter of choice, says the report. What are the key highlights of the report? What is India's status? In 'Beyond the Nugget', learn about the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
UNDP Human Development Index (HDI) 2025: Top 10 highest and lowest ranked countries — where does India rank?
May 20, 2025 9:19 am
Top 10 Ranked Countries in Human Development Index (HDI) 2025 | India HDI Rank: India's HDI value rose to 0.685 in 2023, placing it to 130th rank in the medium human development category, bringing it closer to the high human development.
'Climate change critical aspect of human development sector. Very progressive move by Himachal Pradesh': says Amee Misra
February 21, 2025 12:47 pm
Himachal Pradesh is likely to be first in India to include climate change index in UNDP's Human Development Report. Amee Misra, development economist with UNDP, shares the strategy.
The solution to India’s stunted improvement on the Human Development Index: Improving access to quality education
September 14, 2022 12:15 pm
India, belonging to the medium HDI category, shows dimensional inequalities similar to or slightly below the average figures in the category, except in the case of education where it is high and closer to the low HDI countries. The inequalities in health and education are more than twice that of the very high and high HDI categories
ExplainSpeaking: How to read the latest Human Development Report
September 12, 2022 9:14 am
The Human Development Report for 2022 details six different human development indices. Here's how India performed on each one of them.
India slips two places on HDI as Covid-19 reverses global gains
September 09, 2022 7:34 am
A UNDP report showed that India’s HDI value stood at 0.633 in 2021, which was lower than the world average of 0.732. In 2020, too, India recorded a decline in its HDI value (0.642) in comparison to the pre-Covid level of 2019 (0.645).
India slips two spot to rank 131 in UN's human development index
December 17, 2020 12:13 pm
Human Development Index is the measure of a nation's health, education, and standards of living. India's HDI value for 2019 is 0.645 placing the country in the medium human development category.
With better development indicators, spectre of a Bangladeshi cross-over to India is ill-founded
February 14, 2020 11:07 am
In the last decade, on a range of social development indicators, Bangladesh has fared better than India. Even on the cricket pitch, Bangladesh beat India at the junior world cup. So why would Bangladeshis en masse want to leave their cherished homeland?
India ranks 129 in UNDP Human Development Index report
December 10, 2019 5:09 am
India’s HDI value has marginally increased from 0.643 in 2017 to 0.647 in 2018, shows the report, titled ‘Beyond Income, Beyond Averages, Beyond Today: Inequalities in Human Development in the 21st Century’.
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