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...Rima Khalaf, this semester’s visiting scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative, described poverty and human rights abuses as barriers to human development in the region during a lecture yesterday...
...Khalaf, former United Nations assistant secretary-general and director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States at the U.N. Development Program, is also former deputy prime minister of Jordan...
...While Khalaf lauded the increase in primary and secondary schools over the past 40 years, she said that the region continues to struggle with literacy...
...Khalaf said that the Arab world still has a long way to go in terms of political and economic reforms...
Josh N. Weiss, associate director of Harvard’s Global Negotiation Project, agreed that Khalaf brought “balance” and an “important perspective” in her speech...