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Malaysia is scoring high in its Human Development Index for 2018, with a score of 0.804 compared with 0.

802 in 2017, putting the country in the Very High Human Development category, finishing at 61st place out of 189 countries.

The 2019 HDR entitled “Beyond Income, Beyond Averages, Beyond Today: Inequalities in Human Development in the 21st Century” was released in Bogota, Colombia, today. The report said the Asia-Pacific region has witnessed the steepest rise globally in human development. “Beyond these challenges, society is also becoming more vulnerable to new forms of inequalities, arising from disruptive technology and climate resilience,” it said.Among the recommendations in the report are early childhood and lifelong investment, productivity and public spending and fair taxation.

 

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