The 2014 Human Development Report was launched in Vietnam onSeptember 11 by the UN Development Programme in collaboration with theVietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS).
Entitled SustainingHuman Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience, theReport provides a fresh perspective on vulnerability and proposes waysto strengthen resilience. It calls for universal provision of basicsocial services, stronger policies for social protection and fullemployment to advance and secure development progress.
According to the global Report, levels in human development continueto rise – yet the pace has slowed in recent years. In Vietnam, theaverage annual growth rate in Human Development Index has also sloweddown - from 1.7 percent in the years before 2000, to just 0.96 percentin recent years. In 2013 Vietnam ranked 121 out of 187 countries andterritories – which is in the ‘medium’ category of human development.
Speaking at the report launch, UN Resident Coordinatorand UNDP Resident Representative Pratibha Mehta highlighted theimportance of vulnerability for Vietnam - as a newly emergentmiddle-income country with a globally integrated economy; exposed toclimatic change; and located in a politically charged region.
“ForVietnam, the vulnerability of the many to shocks should now rankalongside poverty reduction as a primary policy challenge,” said Mehta.
The 2014 Human Development Report comes at a critical time,as attention turns to the creation of a new development agenda followingthe 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
InVietnam, this global Human Development Report provides a basis fordiscussing a national approach to managing and reducing humanvulnerability. It offers timely policy inputs and analysis as Vietnamundertakes the 30-years of Doi Moi review and formulates the newSocial Economic Development Plan for 2017 to 2021.
Mehta suggested four policy areas on the management and reduction ofhuman vulnerability in Vietnam to ensure continued progress in humandevelopment, including human capital development and the need for labourmarket reforms; the need for comprehensive Social Assistance to providea minimum living standard, which secures livelihoods and basiccapabilities; investment in institutional reform and making keyinstitutions resilient; and the importance of disaster preparedness,risk reduction and early recovery.
“Building a wide-coverage,Life Cycle-based system of social protection is a vital policy tool incombating vulnerabilities,” Mehta noted.
VASSPresident Nguyen Xuan Thang said the report is useful for Vietnam atthe present, putting forth a new approach on human development with thefocus on vulnerability. Recommendations will help the VASS fulfil itsVietnam human development report 2014, he added.-VNA
Entitled SustainingHuman Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience, theReport provides a fresh perspective on vulnerability and proposes waysto strengthen resilience. It calls for universal provision of basicsocial services, stronger policies for social protection and fullemployment to advance and secure development progress.
According to the global Report, levels in human development continueto rise – yet the pace has slowed in recent years. In Vietnam, theaverage annual growth rate in Human Development Index has also sloweddown - from 1.7 percent in the years before 2000, to just 0.96 percentin recent years. In 2013 Vietnam ranked 121 out of 187 countries andterritories – which is in the ‘medium’ category of human development.
Speaking at the report launch, UN Resident Coordinatorand UNDP Resident Representative Pratibha Mehta highlighted theimportance of vulnerability for Vietnam - as a newly emergentmiddle-income country with a globally integrated economy; exposed toclimatic change; and located in a politically charged region.
“ForVietnam, the vulnerability of the many to shocks should now rankalongside poverty reduction as a primary policy challenge,” said Mehta.
The 2014 Human Development Report comes at a critical time,as attention turns to the creation of a new development agenda followingthe 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
InVietnam, this global Human Development Report provides a basis fordiscussing a national approach to managing and reducing humanvulnerability. It offers timely policy inputs and analysis as Vietnamundertakes the 30-years of Doi Moi review and formulates the newSocial Economic Development Plan for 2017 to 2021.
Mehta suggested four policy areas on the management and reduction ofhuman vulnerability in Vietnam to ensure continued progress in humandevelopment, including human capital development and the need for labourmarket reforms; the need for comprehensive Social Assistance to providea minimum living standard, which secures livelihoods and basiccapabilities; investment in institutional reform and making keyinstitutions resilient; and the importance of disaster preparedness,risk reduction and early recovery.
“Building a wide-coverage,Life Cycle-based system of social protection is a vital policy tool incombating vulnerabilities,” Mehta noted.
VASSPresident Nguyen Xuan Thang said the report is useful for Vietnam atthe present, putting forth a new approach on human development with thefocus on vulnerability. Recommendations will help the VASS fulfil itsVietnam human development report 2014, he added.-VNA
