Now in its ninth annual edition, the HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT focuses on consumption patterns in today's world. The REPORT asks how the present consumption patterns should change to promote more sustainable, more equitable human development for both the rich and the poor and for present and future generations. Illustrated.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The State of Human Development
2. Consumption From a Human Development Perspective
3. Consumption in a Global Village -- Unequal and Unbalanced
4. Unequal Human Impacts of Environmental Damage
5. Agenda for Action