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Human dev index ticks positive

Staff Correspondent
The Human Development Index (HDI) ranking shows that Bangladesh has improved slightly as it reached 139th position among 175 countries for the year 2001. In the year 2000, Bangladesh held the 145th position.
This improvement puts Bangladesh in the Medium Human Development category of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The HDI ranking was done in terms of life expectancy, educational attainment and adjusted real income.
The UNDP Human Development Report (HDR) released yesterday shows that Bangladesh along with China, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal and Thailand are moving up among the developing countries in terms of HDI.
In South Asia, Bangladesh outranked Nepal and Pakistan at positions of 143 and 144. But it scored below Maldives (86), Sri Lanka (99), India (127) and Bhutan (136).
None of the South Asian countries achieved High Human Development category, while Nepal and Pakistan fell in the Low Human Development category.
As in the previous year, Norway remains number one in HDI ranking and Sierra Leone remains at 175 as the world's least HDI rank holder.
However, the HDR on development crisis warns that the world is facing an acute development crisis,
with many poor nations suffering severe and continuing socioeconomic reversals.
On 'Millennium Development Goals In Reach By 2015', the HDR said that the pledge by world leaders to lift hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty by 2015 can be achieved -- but only if poor countries pursue wide-ranging reforms and wealthy nations respond with improved trade terms and increased aid.
Despite promises by the wealthy nations to eradicate extreme poverty, developing nations still need more aid, fairer terms of trade and meaningful debt relief, the report added.
The concept of HDR is to look beyond per capita income, human resource development and basic needs as a measure of human progress. It also assesses such factors as human freedom, dignity and human agency, that is, the role of people in development.
The Index, developed in 1990, takes stock of fundamental aspects of human development in countries both rich and poor. Since the beginning, the UNDP has commissioned an independent team of experts to explore major issues of global concern.
Bangladesh was among the 189 countries that pledged to combat poverty, HIV/AIDS, hunger, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by achieving targets set out under the Millennium Goals.