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Arab Human Development Report Takes an Honest Look at Region
Overall, the report emphasizes, the Arab states have lower freedom indexes and lower voice and accountability figures than sub-Saharan Africa. More than half of Arab women cannot read or write, and the maternal mortality rate is double that of Latin America and the Caribbean and four times that of East Asia. Compared with industrialized countries, Arab spending per person on education dropped from one-fifth of that in industrialized countries in 1980 to one-tenth in the mid-1990s. Arab spending on research and development represents less than 0.5 percent of GNP, compared to 1.26 percent for Cuba and 2.9 percent for Japan in 1995. Internet connectivity is worse than in sub-Saharan Africa.
The report points out that more than a million highly qualified Arabs already are working in and contributing to the prosperity of the industrialized countries. While exporting skills, however, the region is not importing sufficient knowledge from elsewhere. The entire Arab world translates only about 300 books a year, for example—one-fifth of the number that Greece translates, while Spain translates more books annually than the whole Arab world has done in over a thousand years!
http://www.wrmea.org/wrmea-archives/...at-region.html
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