United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Arab Human Development Report 2003

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 beginn.
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