The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) published the 32^nd edition of its Human Development Report titled “Breaking the Gridlock: Reimagining Cooperation in a Polarized World”. The report commented that the global human development trend was unsettling, stating that the Global Human Development Index (HDI) has been partial, incomplete, and unequal. More specifically, the report noted that the HDI is expected to attain record levels in 2023 following sharp declines in 2020 and 2021 although the progress is uneven across countries included in the index. The report revealed that rich countries are experiencing elevated levels of human development while human development in half of the poorest countries remains below their pre-crisis levels. From another perspective, the report stated that global inequalities are exacerbated by substantial economic concentration. In details, the report mentioned that 40% of global trade in goods is concentrated in three (or less) countries. In addition, the stock market capitalization of each of the three largest tech companies in the world exceeded the GDP of more than 90% of countries in 2021. The report also noted that political polarization has been a growing concern and is having global repercussions on critical issues that need to be addressed such as the de-carbonization of economies and the misuse of digital technologies. The polarization is alarming especially in light of the record temperature levels in 2023 that stresses on the need for countries to unify in order to tackle the climate crisis and the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a rapidly evolving technological frontier with little to no regulatory oversight. According to the UNDP Administrator Mr. Achim Steiner, global problems are intertwined, therefore necessitating equally interconnected solutions. Furthermore, Mr. Steiner stated that utilizing an “opportunity-driven agenda” that highlights the benefits of energy transition and AI for human development could provide an opportunity to commit to a shared future. The index is computed based on the scores attained in four main aspects of human development namely, life expectancy at birth, expected years of schooling, mean years of schooling and the gross national income per capita (GNI/Capita) in a total of 193 countries based on data collected for the year 2022. More specifically, 69 countries were classified as having very high human development, 49 as high human development, 41 as medium human development and 34 countries came in the low human development group. Globally, Switzerland topped the list with an HDI score of 0.967, followed closely by Norway (HDI: 0.966), Iceland (HDI: 0.959), Hong Kong (HDI: 0.956), Denmark (HDI: 0.952) and Sweden (HDI: 0.952), just to name a few. On a regional basis, the United Arab Emirates ranked 1^st and came in the 17^th place in the world with an HDI score of 0.937 followed by Bahrain (global rank: 34, HDI: 0.888), Qatar and Saudi Arabia (global rank: 40, HDI: 0.875 each), Kuwait (global rank: 49, HDI: 0.847) and Oman (global rank: 59, HDI: 0.819). Locally, the report classified Lebanon among countries with “high human development” as the country registered an HDI score of 0.723 placing it in the 109^th position in the world and in the 12^th place among its Arab peers. In detail, the average life expectancy at birth in Lebanon stood at 74.4 years, while expected years of schooling was 12.1 years in 2022, and the mean years of schooling stood at 8.6 years. Lebanon’s gross national income per capita reached 12,313 $PPP in 2022 compared to an Arab states’ average of 14,391 $PPP and a world average of 17,254 $PPP. Moreover, Lebanon outperformed the Arab states’ average HDI score of 0.704 yet underperformed the world’s average HDI score of 0.739.