Arab Human Development Report
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The Arab Human Development Report is published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). However most of the writers, contributors and editors are independent from the UNDP body. It was first published in 1999 and since AHDR 2002, 2003, 2004 were released. It is condidered as a different, challenging and new point of view in development field, despite having many common indicators with the Human Development Index of the UNDP. The two important and new contributions made by the Arab Human Development Report in this field are, firstly its attempt to include 'Women's empowerment gap' and secondly 'Information technology' gap. Hence the report claims to evaluate the Arab World in terms of these current capacities.
In the 2003 report the writers were very critical of the tendency in Arab education to depend too much on rote learning and to not encourage creative thinking. Al Jazeera and the Economist describe education and science as being in a "state of crisis"[1], and "self-doomed to failure"; three things were lacking: freedom, knowledge, and an adequate status for women.[2]
[edit] See also
- Munira Fakhro, Bahraini advisor to 2004 AHDR
[edit] Notes
- ^ Arab education in crisis, Al Jazeera, October 21, 2003
- ^ Self-doomed to failure, The Economist, July 4, 2002
[edit] External links
- Reports 2002, 2003, 2004, english/arabic, palestineremembered.com
- UN Arab Human Development Report 2004 at the UNDP website
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