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Breaking the Gridlock: Reimagining Cooperation in a Polarised World
38 mins·15:00, 16 May 2024
Breaking the Gridlock: Reimagining Cooperation in a Polarised World
38 mins
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15:00, 16 May 2024
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Guest: Niloy Banerjee, Resident Representative for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
The UNDP's 2023/24 Human Development Report (HDR), titled "Breaking the Gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarised world," tells a troubling tale: that the rebound in the global Human Development Index (HDI) - which encapsulates a nation's Gross National Income (GNI) per capita, education, and life expectancy - has been fragmented, deficient, and marked by disparities. This uneven development progress is leaving the poorest behind, exacerbating inequality, and stoking political polarisation on a global scale. The result is a dangerous gridlock that must be urgently tackled through collective action. So what can be done, with inequality on the rise? We speak to Niloy Banerjee, the Resident Representative for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam, from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to discuss the issues, and also the solutions towards tackling them.
Presenter: Juliet Jacobs
Producer: Juliet Jacobs
the bigger picturelive and learnundphuman development reportsustainable development goalssdgsparis agreementinequalitypovertyclimate crisis
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