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19 Mar
The newly launched Human Development Index report for 2023/24 by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has revealed that human capital development has been on a constant decline since 2019. The HDR showed that the path of human development progress which shifted downwards in 2020 has remained below the pre-2019 trend, threatening to entrench permanent…
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