The UNDP Regional Bureau of Arab States has published its first comprehensive report on Arab human development, the Arab Human Development Report 2002. The report provides the researchers with a tool ...of measurement that is known as alternative human development index, which is more representative and humane measurement of human development than the Human Development Index used in UNDP global reports. Here, bin Talal discusses the changes and the advantages of reforms in the Arab Human Development Report.
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The great public interest shown in book fairs in the Arab world suggests that whatever the figures on books published and translated, books remain valued cultural artifacts in the Arab world. Rogan ...analyzes the status of Arab book publishing, and how these published/translated books influenced the human development of Arabs.
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The Arab Human Development Report 2003 was published to describe the knowledge development in Arab countries. Knowledge has been aptly selected as a key to development and as a pre-requisite for the ...access to individual freedom and dignity. Here, Lavergne analyzes the factors that contributed to the failure of the Report to assess that Arab countries achieve a knowledge-based society.
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The ways in which one rural community in Mexico responded to drastically altered economic circumstances in the period of 1982-1991 is analyzed. The gendered nature of the strategies they adopted ...altered the social and economic fabric of the community.
This article examines aspects of a handknit sweater industry in Bolivia, This industry employs many rural women, and as a result, has attracted funding from development agencies. The focus here is on ...the dynamics of exporting and marketing Andean handknits. Particular attention is given to grassroots knitting organizations and the problems they face in moving beyond subsidized markets to compete with private entrepreneurs.
Wikan discusses the need to shift the emphasis of sustainable development to the human components, especially regarding the processes of reproduction in the poor population of the cultural ...competences needed to cope in their disadvantaged state. Bartolome, Fernea et al comment on Wikan's arguments. Wikan replies.
