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Title Arab human development report 2009 : challenges to human security in the Arab countries / United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Arab States
Published New York : United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Arab States, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, [265] pages) : color illustrations
Contents The report in brief -- 1. Applying the concept of human security in the Arab countries -- 2. The environment, resource pressures and human security in the Arab countries -- 3. The Arab state and human security: performance and prospects -- 4. The personal insecurity of vulnerable groups -- 5. Challenges to economic security -- 6. Hunger, nutrition and human security -- 7. Approaching health through human security: a road not taken -- 8. Occupation, military intervention and human insecurity -- 9. Concluding reflections
Summary In Arab countries, a widespread lack of human security undermines human development, according to the Arab Human Development Report 2009: Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries. This report is prepared by independent scholars drawn from the region. The report argues that human security is a prerequisite for human development, and that the widespread absence of human security in Arab countries undermines people's options. Human security refers not only to questions of survival, but also basic needs such as access to clean water and quality of life concerns. Human security in the Arab countries is often threatened by unjust political, social, and economic structures; by competition for power and resources among fragmented social groups; and, in some cases, by the impacts of external military intervention
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218)
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Subject National security -- Arab countries
Quality of life -- Arab countries
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
Economic history
National security
Quality of life
Social conditions
SUBJECT Arab countries -- Social conditions
Arab countries -- Economic conditions
Subject Arab countries
Form Electronic book
Author United Nations Development Programme. Regional Bureau for Arab States
ISBN 9789210549059
9210549058
Other Titles Challenges to human security in the Arab countries