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NATIONAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT

REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 1999

Transition and Human Security

Contents:

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Foreword, Introduction, Executive Summary         

CHAPTER 1. HUMAN SECURITY IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT      

1.1. New UNDP Concept of Human Security           

1.2. Economy in Transition: Threats to Human Security           

CHAPTER 2. TRANSITION. PROFILE OF HUMAN SECURITY IN MOLDOVA   

2.1. Economic Reforms: Expectations and Realities    

2.2. Human Security in Moldova: Macroeconomic and Social Parameters      

CHAPTER 3.  RISING SOCIAL INEQUALITY

3.1. Economic Insecurity of Different Social Groups

3.2. Changes in the Income Distribution Pattern and Increase in Disparities: the "Newly Rich” in Relation to the “Newly Poor”  

3.3. Differentiated Access to Goods and Social Services

CHAPTER 4. INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE WIDENING  OF HUMAN OPTIONS      

4.1. Decentralization as a Premise for the Enhancement of Individual Responsibility

4.2. Private Initiative, Entrepreneurship: Forms, Dynamics, and Social Implications

4.3. Women Under New Social Conditions: First Experience in Enterpreneurship         

4.4. The Impact of the Shadow Economy         

CHAPTER 5. PROBLEMS IN MAINTAINING HUMAN SECURITY    

5.1. Social Protection of the Disabled.  Human Security of the Elderly   

5.2. Social Protection of the Employed  

5.3. Public Health Security

5.4. Access to Education        

5.5. Cultural Environment    

5.6. Food Security           

5.7. Ecological Security           

5.8. Increase in Personal Insecurity         

CHAPTER 6. ON THE WAY TO SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT      

CONCLUSIONS      

ANNEXES: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX AND ITS BASIC COMPONENTS       

A. A Technical Note on the Statistical Measurement of the Human Development Index in Moldova         

B. Tables. Selected Indicators of Human Development