Maldives Human Development Report. Challenges and Responses

The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to put people and what they value most - their security, their aspirations, their needs, their rights, their choices - at the centre of development. It is this concern for people and their well being that constitutes the basis for the first National Human Development Report for the Maldives. And this is the way human development is defined - as a process of expanding choices, enhancing people’s capabilities, fulfilling rights and expanding freedoms.