UNDP: RI`s human development making rapid progress
Antara News, Saturday, December 11, 2010
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said Indonesia`s human development index made rapid progress in the past few decades.
"Between 1980 and 2010 Indonesia`s human development index (HDI) rose 54 percent, making Indonesia one of the leaders in the world development progress," UN chief representative to Indonesia El-Mostafa Benlamih said at the launch of Human Development Report 2010 here on Friday.
Indonesia had become one of the "top ten movers" thanks to its rapid progress in the health, education and income fields, he said.
"This progress reflects the government`s serious commitment to improve human development in this country," he said.
The report titled "The Real wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development" pays special attention to countries that have made the greatest progress in human development in the past four decades.
The Asia-Pacific region has so far made remarkable progress in terms of life expectancy, literacy and the number of children attending school in the past four decades, the report said.
In the 1970-2010 period life expectancy rate in East Asia and the Pacific rose by 14 years to 73 years from the average of 59 years, literacy rate increased to 94 percent from 53 percent and the number of children attending school went up by 7 percent, it said.
In terms of human development South Korea ranked 12th, followed by Hong Kong (21st), and Singapore (27th). War-torn Afghanistan was in the lowest position (155th), it said.
Meanwhile, National Development Planning Minister/Chief of the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Armida S Alisjahbana underscored the need to preserve macro economic stability and fiscal condition and anticipate the impact of climate change to ensure that the country would always make progress in its human development.
Climate change would have a great impact on food and energy supplies which would in the end put pressure on inflation and poverty, she said.
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