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Product Description This is the Ninth Edition of The Human Development Report. Each edition includes a section on a specific issue in human development; this issue focuses on consumption patterns prevalent in today's world. As with previous editions, it provides unique data tables updated annually and derived from a set of human development indicators. Review "An important source of valuable data on various facets of human development, with particular focus on gender and regional differences. Also provides a well thought out analysis of information which should be read by students and teachers of socio-economic development."―Ram D. Singh, Illinois State University