A report released on 22 March 2017, the Human Development Report 2016: Human Development for Everyone, highlights that despite extraordinary advances carried out over the last 25 years with regard to human development, progress in the country has been uneven. In order to guarantee sustainable human development for everyone, according to the United Nations Development Program report, it is necessary to concentrate efforts to integrate all sectors of society into the country’s economic development, with a special focus on those who are currently underrepresented or excluded.
The report looks to what society should do to advance human development for everyone. It sets forward policy recommendations at the national level and also looks at ways in which the global development landscape could be made more effective in the fight to leave no one behind, and achieve the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Human Development Report was released worldwide by the United Nations Development Program on 21 March 2017. The report reflects that the Dominican Republic continues to be classified in the area of High Human Development placing the country in position 99 of the 188 countries. The Dominican Republic moved up two spots since the 2015 report.
The best performance by the DR was in relation to income, followed by life expectancy upon birth and access to education. “Leaving no one behind needs to become the way we operate as a global community. In order to overcome the barriers that hamper both human development and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, inclusiveness must guide policy choices,” said Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, speaking at the launch of the report in Stockholm today, alongside UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and the report’s lead author and Director of the Human Development Report Office, Selim Jahan.
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UNDP
23 March 2017
