asia the middle east

... accelerated the 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 ... at www.rand.org. 12 the next decade. While 11/9 (the fall of the Berlin wall) had marked the end of the cold War, 9/11 (the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon) signaled the end of American ... Britain during the days of the Ottoman empire, the United States has convinced the governments of the region that it is the only solution to the region’s problem. At the same time, there is increasing...

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... pres- suring their judicial system to reform laws to 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 ... governing their family codes. CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD Adopted in 1989, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a legally binding international instrument for the welfare ... Policies for the Middle East and North Africa, with the aim of sharing experiences in develop- ing and implementing national policies. The seminar highlighted the lack of unity in the visions...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... 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 frameworks in place, to dig into the role of the ... structural transformation of the economy—especially in terms of exports—such as the one witnessed in high-growth East Asia or in Eastern Europe. The ongoing growth slowdown in the Organisation for Economic ... has mainly been driven by the oil boom. The recent drop in oil prices and their volatility is yet another reminder for these countries that the diversifica- tion of their economies remains a...

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... of the Arab countries’, fails to include the non-Arab countries of the Middle East and therefore cannot strictly be used to make comparisons with other aggregates, such as the Middle East ... that it remains, as it has done at least since 1948, at the centre of Middle Eastern politics. Finally, although the majority of the population of the Middle East consists of Arabic- speaking ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 04:20

... Managers) supervised the preparation of the report. The report belongs to the MENA Development Reports series, which is coordinated by the Office of the Chief Economist for the Middle East and North ... reflect the views of the Executive Directors of The World Bank or the gov- ernments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The boundaries, ... for the 10–14 age group. Information for the 5–9 age group is not available. 16 The Road Not Traveled problem for MENA countries, then, is not the growth of the average years of schooling; rather,...

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... unlimited The Middle East After the Iraq War THE IRAQ EFFECT Frederic Wehrey Dalia Dassa Kaye Jessica Watkins Jeffrey Martini Robert A. Guffey 2 The Iraq Effect: The Middle East After the Iraq ... hardened jihadists would “bleed out” to fronts in the Middle East, Europe, and elsewhere, where xiv The Iraq Effect: The Middle East After the Iraq War other extraregional powers—most notably Russia ... xxii The Iraq Effect: The Middle East After the Iraq War Jordan. Rather than ignore the extent of this problem because of politi- cal sensitivities (the Jordanian government refuses to use the...

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... the umma is given life. The sunna is the policy followed by the king. The king is the organiser who is supported by the army. The army is the bodyguard paid by the treasury. The treasury is the ... justice as the maintenance of that balance. 19 This idea of balance appears in the Qur’an as well, both in the form of the scales of justice and in the form of the middle way, the mean between ... shepherd over the flocks of God, the light or illumination given to rulers by God, the responsibility of rulers for the welfare of their people and the resulting increase of the yield of the land...

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... Reproductive Health in the Middle East and North Africa: 76. 24 Aoyama, Reproductive Health in the Middle East and North Africa: 57. 25 Aoyama, Reproductive Health in the Middle East and North Africa: ... although there have been WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Improving reproductive health care in the Middle East and North Africa would benefit not just women and their ... Aoyama, Reproductive Health in the Middle East and North Africa: Well-Being for All (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001): 27. 3 Aoyama, Reproductive Health in the Middle East and North Africa: xxi. 4...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 14:20

... compare the stars of economic development, the East Asians, with Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) coun- tries. The World Bank undertook the methodologically standard comparison of growth of the ... As a result, they also threaten to undermine confidence in the U.S. security guarantee. In the Middle East, the use of WMD is not a hypothetical threat. The Iran-Iraq war witnessed the repeated ... prices: Unlike the East Asian case, incomes in the Middle East grew for the reasons that were fundamentally exogenous to the difficult process of structural transformation. This matters, because the entrenched habits...

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