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Arab human development and Europe
05/02/2003 By Nader Fergany, Rafael Guardans Cambó
The Arab Human Development Report 2002 concludes that Arab countries need to embark on rebuilding their societies on the basis of:
1. Full respect for human rights and freedoms as the cornerstone of good governance leading to human develop-ment.
2. Empowerment of Arab women by availing all opportunities, and especially those enabling the building of human capabilities, to girls and women on the basis of equality with their male “brothers”.
3. The consolidation of knowledge acquisition and its effective utilisation in building human capabilities. Knowledge has also to be efficiently used in all aspects of societal activities, striving towards the maximisation of human welfare in the region.
It should come as no surprise then that the AHDR team has decided to devote the second Arab Human Development Report, scheduled for mid 2003, to the theme of “Building the knowledge society in the Arab countries” and the third Arab Human Development Report, due for launch in mid 2004, to “Deepening Freedom, through instituting Good Governance, in the Arab countries”.
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Keywords
Democracy Development Development aid European Union Middle EastBio author: Nader Fergany
Nader Fergany, Director of the Almishkat Center for Research of Egypt, is the lead author of the Report on Arab Human Development 2002 of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). He has a degree in Political Science from the Cairo University of Egypt, and a Ph D from the University of North Carolina in the US.
Bio author: Rafael Guardans Cambó
He founded the Fundación Desarrollo Sostenido (Foundation for Sustained Development) (FUNDESO) in 1995, of which he is currently CEO. Since 2000, he is the manager of the consulting company Iniciativas para el Desarrollo Sostenido S.L. (Initiatives for Sustained Development). He is also a member of the Board of the Spanish Confederation of Foundations and the Editorial Board of the Grupo Negocios. He got his degree in Law from the University of Navarre, and started his professional career as a lawyer at the Más Calvet law office.
