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HIGHLIGHT

2013 Report

The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World is available for free downloading

24 Years of Human Development Reports

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Regional
Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries

In Arab countries, a widespread lack of human security undermines human development, according to the Arab Human Development Report 2009: Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries. This report is prepared by independent scholars drawn from the region. The report argues that human security is a prerequisite for human development, and that the widespread absence of human security in Arab countries undermines people’s options. Human security refers not only to questions of surviva...

Arab States - 2009

Arab Human Development Report 2005
Empowerment of Arab Women

Gender inequality is generally recognized as one of the main obstacles to development in the Arab Region. This volume of the Report focuses on the history and contemporary dynamics of Arab women's economic, political, and social empowerment. It details the processes in which gender impacts on Arab development while suggesting means of overcoming some of the challenges and building more equitable societies.

Arab States - 2005

Arab Human Development Report 2004
Towards Freedom in the Arab World

The Arab Human Development Report 2004 delves into the constitutional, legal, political, and social flaws and constraints on freedom that impede good governance in the Arab region, and presents a strategic vision for promoting good governance as a means of encouraging different Arab societies to explore and define their own specific paths towards achieving an Arab renaissance.

Arab States - 2004

Arab Human Development Report 2003
Building a Knowledge Society

AHDR 2002 challenged the Arab world to overcome three cardinal obstacles to human development posed by widening gaps in freedom, women’s empowerment and knowledge across the region. Looking at international, regional and local developments affecting Arab countries since the report was issued confirms that those challenges remain critically pertinent and may have become even graver, especially in the area of freedom. Nowhere is this more apparent than the status of Arab knowledge at the ...

Arab States - 2003

Arab Human Development Report
Creating Opportunities for Future Generations

The first Arab States' Report acknowledges that Arab countries have made substantial progress over the past three decades. Life expectancy has increased by 15 years; mortality rates for children under five years of age have fallen by about two thirds; adult literacy has almost doubled, reflecting large increases in gross educational enrollments. Yet it is obvious that Arab countries have not developed as quickly as comparable nations in other regions. Indeed, more than half of Arab women are...

Arab States - 2002

National
Expanding the Capacities of Qatari Youth
Mainstreaming Young People in Development

Youth are a major human resource for development and effective agents of positive social change. Harnessing their ideals, enthusiasm and creativity, with supporting technological innovation, will greatly contribute to meeting the country’s development goals. Expanding choices and opportunities and building the human capital required for advancing the country towards a diversified knowledge-based society will require greater focus, coordination and investment of resources in Qatar’...

Qatar - 2012

2012 Somalia Human Development Report
Empowering Youth for Peace and Development

The future of Somalia and the well-being of its people rests significantly on empowering its large youth population. This is the first report of its kind on this war-torn Horn of Africa country in more than a decade. The new report – which is based on surveys conducted in more than 3,000 households in south central Somalia, Puntland and Somaliland - reveals that although the majority of Somali youth believe they have a right to be educated (82%) and a right to decent work (71%), they f...

Somalia - 2012

Small Businesses and Human Development

The report highlights the essential role played by micro, small and medium enterprises in the promotion of human development in the country, and through four main pillars, namely economic growth, that is inclusive and pro-poor, social progress, participation, empowerment throw micro finance, and environmental sustainability. The report consists of eight chapters dealing with: the concept of human development through small and medium enterprises, human development in Jordan, economic growth, s...

Jordan - 2011

Youth in Egypt
Building our Future

According to the Report, Egypt’s youth can be a formidable force for development if conditions are put in place for an inclusive society where all young Egyptians feel valued and are afforded opportunities to learn well, find decent work, have a voice, engage productively in the community, afford marriage, and establish their own homes. The Report analyzes from a human development perspective the opportunities and constraints that today face Egypt’s sizeable youth population, w...

Egypt - 2010

Investing in Human Security for a Future State

The Palestinian Human Development Report 2009/10 “Investing in Human Security for a Future State” explores different facets of human security - economy, food, health, environment, political, personal, community - from the perspective of establishing freedom from want, freedom from fear and freedom to live in dignity. Reframing the concept of ‘security’, to one that places the security of individual on par with the state institutions is essential when reflecting on the...

Occupied Palestinian Territory - 2009, 2010

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