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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
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13 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Program (UNDP):
“The bounce back, the recovery, the rebound from the pandemic is measurably and visibly happening for many countries across the world. The Human Development Index is recovering, and in that sense, it is good news when we look at, essentially a development trajectory coming back from a profound period of disruption.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Program (UNDP):
“A number of countries, most of them the least developed, the low income countries, the poorest countries in the world are in fact not recovering. They are not even back at the 2019 levels of the Human Development Index. They are stuck. And in fact, for many of them, conditions are deteriorating. And this is therefore a very, strong warning signal about a phenomenon that we are referring to in the report as divergence, not convergence any longer, but actually divergence.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Program (UNDP):
“And we are also seeing in many countries across the world a growing level of frustration, of polarisation and the emergence of populism as a response that is increasingly dividing societies, radicalising the political discourse, and essentially turning more and more people against each other within countries. We see a great deal of that happening across the world.”
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Pedro Conceição, Director, Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):
“The poorest and most vulnerable of our societies are being left behind. And this is a reversal of a trend of 20 years of convergence. I was shocked when I saw the numbers in many parts of the world.”
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Pedro Conceição, Director, Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):
“Gender inequalities increased dramatically during the pandemic, and I think this is particularly significant to point out this week during CSW.”
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Uneven development progress is leaving the poorest behind, exacerbating inequality, and stoking political polarization on a global scale, according to a new report released today (13 Mar) by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Speaking to reporters in New York, UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner said, a “bounce back” from the COVID-19 the pandemic “is measurably and visibly happening for many countries across the world,” but also noted that “a number of countries, most of them the least developed, the low income countries, the poorest countries in the world are in fact not recovering.”
These countries, Steiner said, “are not even back at the 2019 levels of the Human Development Index. They are stuck. And in fact, for many of them, conditions are deteriorating.”
He said this was “a very, strong warning signal about a phenomenon that we are referring to in the report as divergence, not convergence any longer, but actually divergence.”
Steiner said, “we are also seeing in many countries across the world a growing level of frustration, of polarisation and the emergence of populism as a response that is increasingly dividing societies, radicalising the political discourse, and essentially turning more and more people against each other within countries.”
The Director, Human Development Report Office, Pedro Conceição said, “the poorest and most vulnerable of our societies are being left behind. And this is a reversal of a trend of 20 years of convergence. I was shocked when I saw the numbers in many parts of the world.”
Conceição said, “gender inequalities increased dramatically during the pandemic, and I think this is particularly significant to point out this week” during the Conference on the Status of Women (CSW.) taking place in New York.
The 2023 / 24 Human Development Report (HDR), titled “Breaking the Gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarized world", indicates that the rebound in the global Human Development Index (HDI) – a summary measure reflecting a country’s Gross National Income (GNI) per capita, education, and life expectancy – has been partial, incomplete, and unequal.
