Contents

Overview
Making new technologies work for human development

CHAPTER 1. Human development - past, present and future
CHAPTER 2. Today's technological transformations - creating the network age
CHAPTER 3. Managing the risks of technological change
CHAPTER 4. Unleashing human creativity: national strategies
CHAPTER 5. Global initiatives to create technologies for human development
Endnotes
Bibliographic note
Bibliography

SPECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Kim Daa-jung. Human resource development in the 21st century: enhancing knowledge and information capabilities
M. S. Swaminatban. The antyodaya approach: a pathway to an ever-green revolution
Morten Rostrup. Insisting on responsibility: a campaign for access to medicine

BOXES
TABLES
FICURES
FEATURES
MAP

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
Note on statistics in the Human Development Report
Human and labour rights instruments
Statistical references
Definitions of statistical terms
Classification of countries
Index to indicators
Countries and regions that have produced human development reports