Includes references.

Contents: Reaffirming human development: The original statement -- Human development reports-ahead of the curve -- Human development remains as vibrant as ever -- The advance of people: Recent trends in human development: through the lens of the human development index -- Longer lives, better health -- Knowledge expands possibilities -- Rising standards of living -- Diverse paths to progress: The puzzle of economic growth and human development -- Global advance: the role of ideas and innovation -- The role of institutions, policies and equity -- The deeper story: markets, states and social contract -- Good things don't always come together: The broader dimensions of human development -- Empowerment -- Inequality -- Vulnerability -- Innovations in measuring inequality and poverty: Three new multidimensional measures -- Measuring multidimensional inequality-the inequality adjusted HDI -- Measuring gender inequality-the gender inequality index -- Measuring poverty-the multidimensional poverty index -- The agenda beyond 2010: Progress and the threat of climate change -- An agenda for policy -- An agenda for research.