"Human development report, 1994"

New strategies of sustainable human development that weave development around people, not people around development. New partnerships between state and markets, to combine market efficiency with social compassion.

New patterns of national and global governance. • New forms of international cooperation, to focus aid directly on the needs of the people rather than on the preferences of governments.

This year's Report describes specific policy actions that can make markets more "people-friendly"

and rescue economic growth from becoming "jobless growth". Next, the Report examines decentralization as a step towards people's greater access to decision-making processes. And it traces the recent explosive growth of NGOs and the role they are beginning to play in influencing national and international issues. As in previous years, the Report ranks all countries by the human development index (HDI) and invites readers and those who use the HDI to comment on suggestions for its further improvement. An updated set of human development indicators for 173 countries is presented in the annex. A major feature is the disaggregation of the HDI by various population groups. For instance, when the HDI is calculated separately for black and white populations in the United States, whites rank first in the world (ahead of Japan) and blacks rank number 31 (next to Trinidad and Tobago).