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UNIRR/2001/7
- HDR- The Human Development
Report CD-ROM - Courtesy
United Nations Development Program - UNDP
Type, size and coverage dates:
The CD-ROM compiles complete texts from Human Development Reports
1990 through 1999, along with full data set from HDR 1999. The statistical
database contained data for for 174 countries and more than 300
indicators, and allows the users to export data into a wide variety
of formats, Or to paste tables and charts onto other files. The
texts of HDRs 1990-1999 can be searched with the CD's targeted list
of of about 2000 keywords, as well as by country, report, and additional
keywords.
Subjects:
All aspects of human development are covered by the reports including:
Human Poverty, Gender equality and Empowerment, Governance, National
Economy, Education, Health, Demographic trends, Energy, Environment,
Ensuring human security regarding, crime, food and nutrition and
politics, Water and sanitation and many more social and economic
indicators.
Type of literature:
The CD -ROM contains:
- Statistical databases from HD99 allow you to produce customized
tables and color charts for presentations, reports and for export
into most software formats.
- Country Fact Sheets with key human development indicators for
174 countries
- Comprehensive Reference Section contains human development and
statistical definitions, technical notes on computing, the HDI
GDI GEM, HPI and much more.
- Search engine for all 10 Human Development Reports allowing
a search by topic country and or year
- Entire texts of HDRs 1990-99 in both HTML and pdf formats.
- Press Center containing media releases and resources links
Target users and use:
This CD-ROM provides an exciting opportunity to improve the distribution
and use of the HDR, to ensure that it reaches a user group beyond
the academic and agency communities and to make sure that maximum
use is made of each report. The CD-ROM is designed to make human
development accessible to as many students, policymakers, development
practitioners, journalists, and laypersons, as possible
Availability
and Updates:
Human Development Report CD-ROM. (Sales No. E.99.III.B.
ISBN 92-1-126120-1)
Price: $29.95 ($19.95 for developing countries) can be ordered from
United Nations Publications
Website: http://www.un.org/Pubs/whatsnew/e991.
More Information is available on URL: http://www.undp.org/hdro/cdrom.html.
Access:
The UN House Agencies' staff can access the
CD-ROM through The CD NET
Server of the Library. The
CD can be installed and used from any computer on the UN House LAN.
Please see instructions for installation
of the CD on you computer, or in case of problem, consult your
Agency's LAN Manager or send an e-mail to the UN Library . Other
users, please visit the UN Common Library to consult the HDR CD-ROM
and online retrieval of information, through our Free
Internet Access Terminals.Otherwise,
please feel free to use Ask
UNCOL, our phone / email-based remote reference
service to make searches for you for the information you need and
send the search results or document/s to you by return email. The
documents may be printed, downloaded on Floppy discs or saved and
delivered electronically to an e-mail address as an attachment.
HDR - 10 Year CD-ROM has been made available
to the UN Common Library for free public use by the courtesy of
UNDP - Pakistan Office.
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