Since their first publication in 1990, the global Human Development Reports have chosen various themes as the focus of each year’s report. Each of these reports has also come up with a set of concrete policy messages relevant to the theme of the report.

• The theme of the 1990 Human Development Report was Concept and Measurement of Human Development. The Report defined the concept of human development, introdused the HDI as a measure of it and also provided various indicators of human development.
• Financing Human Development was the main focus of the 1991 Human Development Report. The basic point made in the Report was that it is the absence of political will and not the inadequacy of resources which is the main constraint to human development. It showed ways to restructure national budgets as well as aid money to allocate more resources to human development.
• The 1992 Human Development Report looked at the International Dimension of Human Development. The Report concluded that unless the industrial world opens its doors to developing countries for trade capital flow and migration, international inequality will increase and human development will not be achieved.
• People’s Participation was the theme of the 1993 Human Development Report. The Report showed how ‘jobless growth’ inhibits people’s participation in markets.It also examined how people participate in the process that determines their lives through people-friendly markets, a decentralised government and through institutions of civil society, particularly NGOs.
• It is the security of people, not territorial security which is more fundamental for human development. That was the message of the 1994 Human Development Report whose theme was Human Security. The Report also attempted to identify the peace dividend from reduced military expenditures, and elaborated on how it could be used for enhancing human development.
• The basic message presented in the 1995 Human Development Report was ‘development, if not engendered, is endangered’. With Gender and Human Development as its theme, the Report concluded that progress has been made in building women’s capabilities, but not opportunities. The Report also pointed out that out of the $23 trillion of global output, about $11 trillion can be accounted for by unpaid work by women.
• The theme of the 1996 Human Development Report was Economic Growth for human development. It maintained that unless growth is properly managed, it can be jobless rather than job-creating, ruthless rather than pro-poor, voiceless rather than culturally sensitive and futureless rather than environmentally sound. The Report concluded that these is no automatic link between economic growth and human development and such a link can be forged only through careful policy management.
• Human Poverty was the theme of the 1997 Human Development Report. The Report highlighted the point that poverty is multi-dimensional and human poverty is larger than income poverty.The Report looked at the dynamics of impoverishment and examined the changing faces of poverty. It also presented an agenda for poverty eradication by the 21^st century.

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