Abstract
Abstract The aim of development has no longer nowadays only achieving an increase in the national income, but exceeded to interest in other aspects within the scope of economic development, almost the factors affiliated with the development of human resources and to provide the major needs. On this basis, new indicators and referents have been widely used to express these capabilities. The importance of this research started from the magnificent role of the human development of evaluating the better life and achieving higher levels of social and economic welfare. The objective of research is to explain the scope of development achieved in Arab countries and the scope of human resources development and the differences among these countries. The problem of the current research is to find a unified formulae among the world countries that include all primary components of the human development. This can be seen through the human resources measurement in the world countries. It hypothesized that the Arab countries have realized variously a very advanced rate in the human recourses. The quantities method has been used on the basis of allowed data analysis. The research concluded that Arab countries have profoundly achieved an acute progress in human resources development. So, the national rate of human resources increased from 0.518 in 1975 to 0.684 in 2002, the compound annual growth 1.03%. Arab countries have been able to reduce the gap considerably, where the gap has noticeably expanded inside the countries separately. .
