HUMAN 
DEVELOPMENT
REPORT
1997

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•  Overview:

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•  Statistics

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•  Launch

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HUMAN 
DEVELOPMENT TO ERADICATE POVERTY
 

"Poverty is not to be suffered in silence by the poor. Nor can it be tolerated by those with power to change it. The challenge is now to mobilize action - state by state, organization by organization, individual by individual"

James Gustave Speth,
Administrator of UNDP

"The resources needed to eradicate poverty are a mere fraction of the resources available, globally and in most countries. The cost of accelerated action must be measured against the cost of allowing poverty to grow - that is, against continuing political conflict and instability, poverty and disease and affronts to human sensibilities." 

Richard Jolly, Special Advisor to the UNDP Administrator and principal coordinator of the Report