This book highlights the importance of human development and its role in building a knowledge-based society founded on education, science, innovation, and creativity. It reviews the challenges facing human development, such as poverty, hunger, illiteracy, ignorance, extremism, and corruption, and the contributions of democracy, human rights, the environment, health, water, and especially education and science in confronting these challenges and mitigating their effects, as well as in promoting a culture of innovation and creativity and building a knowledge economy that leads to improved economic growth rates and enhanced national security.

The book also delves into the experiences of Arab countries in general, and the UAE and Egypt in particular, in addition to a detailed study of the experiences of China, Israel, and Malaysia in developing education and science policies and their mechanisms that led to building a knowledge society. This society contributes to achieving high rates of human and economic development and strengthening political, security, and social stability for all segments of society.

• Publishing house: Arab Scientific Publishers/Lebanon
• Author: Abdul Hassan Al-Husseini
• ISBN: 9789953875156
• Number of Pages: 392
• Year of publication: 2008