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Article: Pakistan's Human Development Challenges Pressing:
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- July 16, 1999
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The Human Development Report 1999 of the United Nations has ranked
Pakistan the 138th among 174 countries and regions on the basis of
the Human Development Index (HDI).
The report was launched across the world, including Pakistan,
Harumi Sukaguchi, resident representative of the United Nations
Development Program (UNDP) in Pakistan, Friday released the report at
a ceremony at the United Nations Information Center in Islamabad.
The report ranked Pakistan among the group of countries
categorized as Medium Human Development. Compared with the 1998
report, Pakistan has graduated from the Low Human Development
countries and regions to the Medium Human Development countries and
regions.
"In fact ...