The 20th anniversary edition of the Human Development Report, The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development, highlights Asian countries in leading development progress over the past 40-years. But ‘multidimensional’ poverty, gender gaps and rising inequality are identified as the region’s big challenges.  

The report was launched November 4 in New York by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in New York and spotlights countries that made the greatest progress in recent decades as measured by the Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI analyzes health, education and income data over the past 40-years.  

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