UN Extols HDI Results in Cuba
UN Assistant Secretary Khalid Malik highlighted Cuba's performance regarding the Human Development Index, which measures three basic aspects health, knowledge and income.
Malik offered a press conference, accompanied by coordinator of the UN system and representative of the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Country Director Barbara Pesce Monteiro.
Malik, who is also the new director of the Office of the PNUD´s Human Development Report, said that Cuba improved its position in HDI in 2011 compared to 2010.
He referred to a note of the global HDI website, according to which Cuba is the only country in Latin America among the top 10 with the best not-economic HDI results in the past ten years.
In fact, it is the only developing nation with the highest performance in this aspect, including a two-year increase in life expectancy and an additional five expected years of schooling.
In remarks to Prensa Latina, Malik explained that this indicator, that started to be gauged two decades ago, takes into account the gross domestic income, but it is not the main reason of the analysis, which also includes health and education.
In his opinion, the HDI has become a very important index in the last few years and is used along with other indexes to measure some 180 countries.
He said this is the second time he visits Cuba, and on this occasion he met with government officials and several bodies and institutions, with which he reached many positive agreements.
Regarding future collaboration, he said they considered possibilities of joint work with the UNDP and local authorities.
He said there are plans to hold a global forum on development, presumably in January or February, on a venue yet to be defined, expected to be attended by intellectuals and policy makers, to discuss all these issues.
Malik described the HDI as valid and up-to-the-minute, as it also shows the womens involvement in society and other important aspects.
He appreciated Cubans multilateral support to the work carried out by his office.
Malik offered a press conference, accompanied by coordinator of the UN system and representative of the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Country Director Barbara Pesce Monteiro.
Malik, who is also the new director of the Office of the PNUD´s Human Development Report, said that Cuba improved its position in HDI in 2011 compared to 2010.
He referred to a note of the global HDI website, according to which Cuba is the only country in Latin America among the top 10 with the best not-economic HDI results in the past ten years.
In fact, it is the only developing nation with the highest performance in this aspect, including a two-year increase in life expectancy and an additional five expected years of schooling.
In remarks to Prensa Latina, Malik explained that this indicator, that started to be gauged two decades ago, takes into account the gross domestic income, but it is not the main reason of the analysis, which also includes health and education.
In his opinion, the HDI has become a very important index in the last few years and is used along with other indexes to measure some 180 countries.
He said this is the second time he visits Cuba, and on this occasion he met with government officials and several bodies and institutions, with which he reached many positive agreements.
Regarding future collaboration, he said they considered possibilities of joint work with the UNDP and local authorities.
He said there are plans to hold a global forum on development, presumably in January or February, on a venue yet to be defined, expected to be attended by intellectuals and policy makers, to discuss all these issues.
Malik described the HDI as valid and up-to-the-minute, as it also shows the womens involvement in society and other important aspects.
He appreciated Cubans multilateral support to the work carried out by his office.
Source:
Prensa Latina
Date:
01/10/2011