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... Overview of Urbanization in Asia and the Near East 3 Global Trends in Urbanization and Urbanism The world is urbanizing rapidly. Between 1950 and 2000, the percentage of the world’s total population ... Heisler and Lily Kak of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Asia and Near East (ANE) Bureau began to express their concerns about the health needs of the urban poor in the rapidly ... responsible for the focus on the health of children under five years of age, and he was the leader in the definition of the health status and determinants indicators that framed the literature...

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... around the world about population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that information to advance the well-being of current and future generations. PRB’s Middle East and North ... Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding, spotlighting the “World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond,” first adopted in 1995 and developed further since then. The World ... give women the right to transfer their nationality to their children when the father is a foreigner. Tunis and Turkey are the only countries in the region with secular laws governing their family...

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... lopme nt in the region. The common problem boils down to the role of the state and its institutions in various areas of the business environment. The report goes beyond the laws and the regulatory ... access to land (chapter 6), and the conduct of industrial policies (chapter 7). The aim is to show how the role of the state and its institutions, when diverted from their regulatory and administrative ... such as the Arab Republic of Egypt and Tunisia, gained momentum in the 1980s, and accelerated in the1 990s in other countries such as Algeria, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Republic of Yemen, and...

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... comparisons with other aggregates, such as the Middle East and North Africa’ or the Middle East as used by other agencies including the United Nations and the World Bank. If the Middle East is clearly—as ... NAMES The Arabic language is used over a vast area. Though the written language and the script are standard throughout the Middle East, the spoken language and also the pronunciation of the written ... and exports passing through the city’s harbours. ALF —see Arab Liberation Front A political and economic dictionary of the middle east 26 ensuring that the politics and economics of the Middle...

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... in East Asia and Latin America. But the fact re- mains that the average gross enrollment rate in secondary schools in MENA in 2003 was 75 percent, compared to 78 and 90 percent for East Asia and ... rates. 14 The Road Not Traveled Moreover, there seems to be a big difference in the path taken by the MENA region in expanding the average level of education among the population compared with the ... growing demand and the emergence of new and dynamic sectors. In the Arab Republic of Egypt, for example, the expansion of secondary and higher education was ahead of full enrollment at the lower...

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... Threats The most important and dramatic change remains the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact and the ratcheting down of the likelihood of a nuclear confrontation between the nuclear ... such arguments hardly mattered when the United States and the Soviet Union each had thousands of nuclear weapons and the other players had only a handful. If U.S. and Russian arsenals were cut drastically ... However, there could be significant differences. The problem is that the Chinese might not understand the “rules of the game” the way the United States does. That is one interpretation of both the...

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... debate on the democratization of the Middle East. The United States and Europe, he argued, have no choice but to engage in the Middle East. The Europeans have a responsibility to help the United ... security and stability. Addressing the American role and perspective on the Middle East, one American speaker noted that the United States will be preoccupied with the Middle East for at least 15 Some ... providing decisionmakers and the public with rigorous, objective research on critical policy issues affecting the Middle East. For more information on the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy, contact the Director,...

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... older persons in Asia and the Pacific. I. Key gaps and challenges The Forum identified the following gaps and challenges facing elderly care services in Asia and the Pacific: A. ... religious beliefs (or the interpretations thereof) and some traditional practices. II. Recommendations To address the gaps and challenges identified above, the Forum recommended the following: ... address the above gaps and challenges, the Forum recommended that Governments, civil society, the private sector and intergovernmental and international organizations work closely together to...

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... development and under 5 mortality rate in Asia and the Pacific……………………………………………… 15 Figure 15: The relationship between inclusive financial development and the HIV prevalence rate in Asia and the ... development and poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific……………………………………………………. 14 Figure 12: The relationship between inclusive financial development and primary enrolment rate in Asia and the ... development and poverty rates in Asia and the Pacific………………………… 10 Figure 7: The relationship between equity market based measure of financial development and poverty rates in Asia and the Pacific…………………………...

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... (million) Non-AsiaAsia Note: Extrapolation and interpolation were used to estimate urbanization level and corresponding starting years for Latin America and the Caribbean and Northern America. Sources: ... indicators I. Asian Development Bank. The views expressed in this book do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) or its Board of Governors or the governments they ...   and Governance. Each theme is further divided into subtopics. The tables contain indicators related to a subtopic. The MDGs and themes in Parts II and III start with a brief...

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