Human Mobility, Shared Opportunities

Question : “Human Mobility, Shared Opportunities” is a —
(a) Review of the 2005 Human Development
(b) Review of the 2001 Human Development
(c) Review of the 2004 Human Development
(d) None of the above
Answer (d)
Related facts

  • On October 21, 2020, a review report was released by the UNDP(United Nations Development Programme).
  • The title of this report is “Human Mobility, Shared Opportunities: A Review of the 2009 Human Development Report and the Way Ahead”.
    There are five chapters in this report, which are as follows —

Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2: Patterns and politics of human mobility
Chapter 3: Revisiting the 2009 pillars
Chapter 4: An evolving agenda on international migration
Chapter 5: Looking ahead to the next decade—how human mobility can advance human development

  • These chapters accessed how future policy responses could facilitate safe, orderly, and regular migration.
  • This report marked three decades of its annual human development reports.

Key points :

  • Mobility of global population in 2019 : a snapshot
Groupsfindings of the report
Children37.7 million
Registered refugees25.9 million
Asylum    seekers3.5 million
Students5.3 million
Migrant workers164 million
  • There are 271.6 million migrants registered in 2019.
  • Share of immigrants in global population by HDI group, 2019
HDIShare of Migrants in National Population (%)
Low HDI1.8
Medium HDI0.7
High HDI1.2
Very High HDI13.0
  • Afghanistan,Chad,Niger,South Sudan,Ethiopia,Benin,Togo,Mali,Pakistan and Mozambique are the top ten countries in 2018 with the greatest gender gaps in ID(identity document) coverage.

By — Pankaj Pandey.

Link:
https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/democratic-governance/Human-Mobility-Shared-Opportunities-A-Review-of-the-2009-Human-Development-Report-and-the-Way-Ahead.html