Traduction de «Indicateur composite de développement humain » (Français → Anglais) :

8 (1) In this section, “Index” means the Human Development Index developed and maintained by the United Nations Development Programme.

What highlights what the member is speaking about is the fact that in 2005 Canada stood at number four on the United Nations gender development index.

90. Acknowledges the usefulness and the relevance of budget support, which in particular enables basic social services to be improved whilst, at the same time, helping to strengthen the structure of African countries; calls, however, for caution in relation to the disbursement of aid in the form of budget support; insists that budget support be treated separately for each country, depending on its particular situation and that it is not appropriate for fragile States or countries in conflict; calls for the establishment of indicators for human and social development, for gend ...[+++]er budgeting and for education and health; in this respect, encourages the Commission to continue drawing up its proposed "MDG contract" with the intended beneficiaries of budget support; insists that budget support must be accompanied by the strengthening of the capacity of parliaments, national courts of auditors, local authorities and civil society to scrutinise the process, so as to avoid basic social services becoming under-resourced; proposes that budget support should not replace support to certain key development sectors such as education and health or sectors that risk being marginalised by recipient governments;

89. Acknowledges the usefulness and the relevance of budget support, which in particular enables basic social services to be improved whilst, at the same time, helping to strengthen the structure of African countries; calls, however, for caution on the disbursement of aid in the form of budget support; insists that budget support be treated separately for each country, depending on its particular situation and that it is not appropriate for fragile States or countries in conflict; calls for the establishment of indicators for human and social development, for gend ...[+++]er budgeting and for education and health; in this respect, encourages the Commission to further elaborate its proposed “MDG contract” with the intended beneficiaries of budget support; insists that budget support must be accompanied by the strengthening of the capacity of parliaments, national courts of auditors, local authorities and civil society to scrutinise the process, so as to avoid basic social services becoming under-resourced; proposes that budget support should not replace support to certain key development sectors such as education and health or sectors that risk to be marginalised by recipient governments;

Under Canada's community well-being index used to examine the well-being of Canadian communities, the six Hul’qumi’num communities score between 448th and 482nd out of 486 communities surveyed in British Columbia.

I'd like to make a series of points, all of which lead to my desire to convince you that although ten years ago Canada was rated number one in the world amongst all countries on the UN human development index, which measures key elements of social and economic development, and number one in the UN's gender development index for a period of four years, Canada has, for the last several years, been repeatedly singled out, studied, written about, and chastised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the OECD, which consists of 30 plus an extra couple of the most industrially developed countries in ...[+++]the world, by the International Monetary Fund, and by various agencies of the United Nations, including the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.