Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from March 2004

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from March 2004

Introduction.
March 22, 2004... THE IMPRESSIVE ARRAY OF socio-economic statistics marshaled in the Arab Human Development Report 2002, statistics that were supported and seconded by the subsequent Report a year later, tell the story of the stagnating, "under developing" world...

The Arab Human Development Report 2002: review and reform.
March 22, 2004... THE UNDP REGIONAL BUREAU of Arab States made a major contribution to development debate when it published its first comprehensive report on Arab human development. While the Report builds on the concept of human development used by UNDP in its...

The 2003 Arab Human Development Report: a critical approach.
March 22, 2004... IT IS AN EMBARRASSING TASK to comment upon such an impressive piece of work as the Arab Human Development Report 2003, which is the outcome of the collaboration of highly esteemed Arab thinkers of various countries and backgrounds. This...

Some aspects of the Arab Human Development Report 2003 as read by a European scholar.
March 22, 2004... SINCE 1990, THE UNITED NATIONS Development Programme has published every year a World Report on Human Development. The UNDP is the UN's global development network, which advocates for changes and connects countries to help people build a better...

Iraq and human development: culture, education and the globalization of hope.
March 22, 2004... HOW DO THE ARAB HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Reports relate to Iraq? The international discourse on human development, championed by the United Nations, came into being in 1990 with publication of the first Human Development Report. The UN initiated the...

Arab books and human development.
March 22, 2004... THE 2002 ARAB HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Report was a landmark document. Written by Arab social scientists, it was the first auto-critique to address the challenges faced by the Arab world at the start of a new century. The 2002 Report set out an agenda...

The environment in the 2002 Arab Human Development Report: a critique.
March 22, 2004... THE 2002 ARAB HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT (AHDR) referred in its third Chapter to three main dimensions for Arab human-capacity building. These were population, health, and environment. The section dealing with the environment dealt with the main...

The Arab democracy deficit: the case of Egypt.
March 22, 2004... THE BLEAK 2002 ARAB HUMAN Development Report (AHDR 2002) noted "a substantial lag between Arab countries and other regions in terms of participatory government." (1) Recognizing the "intractable" nature of attempts to quantify such matters, the...