Advancing Global Education
Patterns of Potential Human Progress series
Janet Dickson, Barry Hughes and Mohammod Irfan
Paradigm Publishers, 2009
The Patterns of Potential Human Progress series provides a thorough analysis on an array of issues, such as poverty and health, and then predicts trends based on the data. “We look at what’s going to happen over the next 50 years,” says Barry Hughes, series editor and director of DU’s Pardee Center for International Futures. Patterns is modeled after a United Nations publication, the annual Human Development Report. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund produce similar reports, but according to Hughes, nothing projects as far into the future as Patterns. These other forecasts only look three to 10 years ahead.