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MDG Kingdom of Bahrain 2003:
This is the First Report on the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which the Bahraini Government
wrote in cooperation with the United Nations, detailing the
country’s progress toward achieving the MDGs. The Report reveals
that the Government has made significant progress in most areas and
is potentially on track on all of them. However, certain goals,
especially in the areas of HIV/AIDS and women’s advancement need to
be monitored to prevent them from becoming major concerns in the
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Bahrain Human Development Report 2000:
The report details the
development challenges facing Bahrain at the turn of the millennium.
Outstanding issues include the need for a higher than average GDP
growth rate and investment in human resource development. Although
high achievements in education have been made, it has not translated
to sustainable employment prospects particularly amongst recent
graduates.
Bahrain has made significant gains in health as a direct result of
the priority assigned to health programmes since the 1950s. Despite
progress in the area of women’s advancement, the challenge remains
to exert more intensive efforts to enlarge women’s economic and
professional opportunities.
The report concludes that since human development is a
multidimensional, inter related and complex phenomenon, maximum use
should be made of Bahraini cultural specificity and distinct body of
tradition as far as they enhance, reinforce and sustain such
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