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LAUNCH OF THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2013 11 April 2013 St. Vincent and the Grenadines

LAUNCH OF THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2013 11 April 2013 St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Contents. The rise of the South Drivers of development transformation Sustaining the momentum Opportunities and priorities for a New Era A closer look at Barbados. Rise of the South:

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LAUNCH OF THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2013 11 April 2013 St. Vincent and the Grenadines

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  1. LAUNCH OF THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2013 11 April 2013 St. Vincent and the Grenadines

  2. Contents • The rise of the South • Drivers of development transformation • Sustaining the momentum • Opportunities and priorities for a New Era • A closer look at Barbados

  3. Rise of the South: • GLOBAL REBALANCING • expansion of human capabilities and choices

  4. Global rebalancing

  5. Realignment OF world trade

  6. Rapid HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE GLOBE Korea, Rep. Chile Brazil Mexico Malaysia Mauritius Thailand Turkey Tunisia China Indonesia VietNam Ghana India Lao PDR Bangladesh Uganda Rwanda

  7. Much human progress, particularly in Low HDI countries Avg. Annual Growth rate 2000-12 HDI Spread– highest vs. lowest

  8. MASSIVE EXPANSION OF THE GLOBAL MIDDLE CLASS

  9. Internet connectivity

  10. Why have some countries done better than others? • What can we learn from them? • What are the common drivers? • Proactive development states • Tapping global markets • Social policy innovation

  11. Proactive Developmental states 2 1 Nurturing industrial capacities Commitment to long-termhuman development Actively promoting job creation 3 4 Enhancing public investment in health and education

  12. TAPPING Global Markets 1 Investment in people to make the best of trade opportunities Investing in infrastructureto facilitate market access 2 3 Expanding into non-traditional markets

  13. SOCIAL POLICY INNOVATIONS 1 TURKEY 2 BRAZIL Expanding education access by equalizing funds across regions and municipalities Health care for all and targeting the poor 3 MEXICO Poverty reduction through innovative cash transfer programmes 4 ETHIOPIA 5 JAMAICA Productive Safety Nets Programme for food security and infrastructure investment PATH: Impact on children’s health and school attendance

  14. How can we sustain human development for the generations to come? • Challenges • Enhancing equity • Promoting voice and accountability • Confronting environmental challenges • Aligning demography to policy

  15. PROMOTING EQUITY, VOICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY 2 1 Countries with lessinequalitydo better and improve more in human development Equitable, quality education are essential to reduce gender inequality and promote human development Participation and inclusion essential to stability and social cohesion 3 4 Educated, interconnected youth demand greater accountability

  16. Confronting environmental challenges

  17. Cost of inaction: potential environmental impact on poverty

  18. aligning demography to policy 1 Analysing investmentaccording to population To reap a demographic dividend and benefit from youth bulge, job creation should have priority 2 Skills formation and productivity gains can help cope with a rapidly aging population 3

  19. The Rise of the South: opportunities • Governance for a changed world • New development partnerships

  20. REDESIGN FOR A NEW ERA 1 COHERENT PLURALISM Rise in regional institutions and finance mechanisms MORE SPACE FOR NON STATE ACTORS Citizen networks and social media can promote new norms to reinforce accountability of both state and private actors 2 3 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE For fair representation and shared responsibility, 20th century institutions must adapt to 21st century realities

  21. NEW INSTITUTIONS, NEW MECHANISMS • Infrastructure development banks • New institutions can facilitate regional integration and South-South relationships • A new South Commission $6.84 trillion $3.36 trillion

  22. PRIORITIES FOR A NEW ERA • Rising economic strength must be matched by a full commitment to human development • LDCs can learn and benefit from the success of emerging economies • Partnerships and institutions to facilitate South-south cooperation • Greater representation for the South and CSOs can accelerate progress on major global challenges • In a more connected world, the South continues to need the North and the North now needs the South as well

  23. A CLOSER LOOK AT BARBADOS

  24. HDI Rankings

  25. Barbados HDI Growth Trends

  26. Barbados Figure 1: Trends in Barbados’s HDI component indices 1980-2012 Poverty: 15.0 Indigence 6.9% (Household) Gini Coefficient: 0.47 (SLC 2010)

  27. Human Development in the OECS

  28. Barbados & REGIONAL HDI Growth Trends

  29. BARBADOS AND MAURITIUS: COMMONALITIES IN DEVELOPMENT PATH Very high human development: Barbados, Chile, Argentina

  30. Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP)

  31. Youth and innovation

  32. DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS

  33. Drivers for development Innovation, resilience approach to development

  34. opportunities: an Ideal time to talk new partnerships • Post-2015 • SIDS 2014 • Opportunity to assess partnerships and institutions

  35. GOING FORWARD… • Innovations in the South in areas such as social protection, renewable energy and climate-friendly technologies hold solutions that can be shared and used for the benefit of all • Within this region alone, with Barbados maintaining its presence in the very high human development category and with all six OECS countries in the high human development group, there are successes right here at home that can provide lessons to be shared. There are many opportunities, a need to innovate and think differently, to explore new options. No one has a monopoly on good ideas – we need to open up to new thinking, test, measure, innovate and accelerate.

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