Report by Gojko Drljaca
UNDP: Covid-19 will halt global human development for the first time in 30 years
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) today issued a warning that humanity will for the first time stop its development since 1990 due to the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Too often it is forgotten that GDP growth or decline is not one, and perhaps not the most important indicator of progress. The United Nations Global Human Development Measurement combines a much more sophisticated or complex set of factors such as education, health and living standards.
The UN fears that after thirty years of continuous growth in human progress this year, the Covid-19 crisis will lead to a decline:
"The world has seen many crises over the last 30 years, including the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. years. All these crises were strong blows to human development, but development still accumulated year after year…. Covid-19 is a triple blow to health, education and income and could change that trend, "warned Achim Steiner , UNDP administrator.
The UNDP is particularly concerned that "Covid-19 acts as a magnifier for inequality." Namely, they estimate that the decline in human development will be much higher in developing countries that are less able to cope with the social and economic impact of the pandemic.
From the perspective of the rich west, where continuing education is organized due to the wide availability of the Internet, it is forgotten that in many developing countries the school year has been completely stopped. UNDP estimates that 86 percent of children in primary schools do not attend school in countries with a low level of human development, while in countries with a high level of development this percentage is only 20 percent. On average, 60 percent of children are not currently educated globally. According to this criterion, humanity returned to 1980.
The negative impact of the pandemic can be seen on the decline in employment and income of women, and through lower security of their employment, reproductive health, unpaid work and even an increased rate of violence against women.
UNDP estimates that the Covid-19 pandemic will take 300,000 lives and lower global per capita revenue by 4 percent.
The complexity of the crisis has raised the issue of health care protection, social protection, rising unemployment, the collapse of the gray economy, as well as the specific problems of small and medium-sized enterprises, and coordination of macroeconomic policies is needed to halt the decline in human development.
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