genetic counseling in the middle east

... People in Egypt, Final Report, 2010 11 Diane Singerman, The Economic Imperatives of Marriage: Emerging Practices and Identities Among Youth in the Middle East, ” The Middle East Youth Initiative ... countries in the region with secular laws 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 ... Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has become the major international agreement defining the rights of girls and women.3 Article of the convention defines discrimination against...

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... 8.2 The Lasting Influence of the Old Business Elite in MENA: Older Firms The Lasting Influence of the Old Business Elite in MENA: Older Entrepreneurs among Younger Populations Less Educated Business ... 8.2 The Lasting Influence of the Old Business Elite in MENA: Older Firms The Lasting Influence of the Old Business Elite in MENA: Older Entrepreneurs among Younger Populations Less Educated Business ... uncertainty all rank high in the minds of business managers (figure 0.6) In many countries, businesses also point to reform gaps in the regulatory environment, in access to finance, and in access...

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... pulls all of the pieces together Primary Findings The main finding of this report is that the MENA region has made significant strides in the education sector, having started in the 1960s and ... seen in the developing world The main shortcoming of past efforts lies in the weak link between the improvements in the level, quality, and distribution of human capital and economic growth, income ... causes at the expense of the broader public good In light of the uncertainty surrounding the outcomes of investment in education, Part I of this report The Case for Education Reform in the MENA...

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... POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST This book is the first comparative and interdisciplinary study of constitutional politics and constitution making in the Middle East The historical background and setting ... constitution-making involving the Sunnis, the American insistence that the Iraqis not avail themselves of the six-month extension allowed by the TAL, the putting of the draft to vote in a referendum ... caliphs The harmony of the spheres and the security gained by following the right path are also referenced A number of these images have circles embedded in them, reinforcing the intrinsic circularity...

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... important for identifying and treating childbirth-related injuries and illnesses, promoting breastfeeding, and counseling couples about appropriate family planning methods for spacing births Home visits ... Health Indicators in the Middle East and North Africa Number in 2002 (thousands) Middle East and North Africa Algeria Bahrain Egypt Iran Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Morocco Oman Palestinea ... pregnancies Reducing the number of deliveries and increasing the time between births help save the lives of both women and their infants International data suggest that siblings born three to...

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... Environment in the Middle East POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST COULD HAVE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR THE UNITED STATES Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Middle East has ... and enduring interests in the Middle East Six important U.S interests include countering terrorism, countering WMD proliferation, maintaining stable oil supplies and prices, ensuring the stability ... This chapter sets the stage for these issues by identifying U.S national interests in the region and the potential threats to those interests U.S INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST The United States...

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... prominent American museum There was a significant policy change in these years, which indicated the growing involvement of the United States in the world of the 1920s In the prewar years, the ... Germany There were frictions, of course, especially with the French, who devoted themselves to expanding their cultural in uence in the Middle East during the interwar years, sometimes to the detriment ... even into the 1930s? In the mid-1930s, with the rise of Negotiating for the Past anti-Semitism in Germany, American field directors and their sponsoring institutions provided safe haven in the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:38

... wealthy countries in the region are lacking in their human capacity building but have funding; and four, low and middle income nations are lacking in financial resources despite having welleducated ... and integrated learning experience There is a close and continuous interaction among the faculty delivering the courses, and the students have the opportunity to better appreciate the unifying themes ... pursuing their research interests at institutions in the US cutting-edge biomedical research This enterprise is attracting, retaining and developing research talent The College’s project is work in...

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... wealthy countries in the region are lacking in their human capacity building but have funding; and four, low and middle income nations are lacking in financial resources despite having welleducated ... and integrated learning experience There is a close and continuous interaction among the faculty delivering the courses, and the students have the opportunity to better appreciate the unifying themes ... pursuing their research interests at institutions in the US cutting-edge biomedical research This enterprise is attracting, retaining and developing research talent The College’s project is work in...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... Figure 4.5 The costs of opening and closing a business are high in the Middle East, as are the number of procedures required 42 Figure 4.6 Closing a business in the Middle East is cumbersome ... toward working women are less positive in the Middle East than in most other developing regions .38 Table 4.3 Self-employment is about as common in the Middle East as in other regions ... everywhere But their share in the Middle East and North Africa is far lower than in the other middle- income regions of East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe and Central Asia The widely...

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... Environment in the Middle East POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST COULD HAVE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR THE UNITED STATES Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Middle East has ... and enduring interests in the Middle East Six important U.S interests include countering terrorism, countering WMD proliferation, maintaining stable oil supplies and prices, ensuring the stability ... This chapter sets the stage for these issues by identifying U.S national interests in the region and the potential threats to those interests U.S INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST The United States...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:20

... include Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, the minister of the interior, and Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the minister of defense Tyler, 2003 52 The Future Security Environment in the Middle East an ... during the 1970s.13 These lower prices mean that many Middle Eastern states have not had enough income to maintain the standards of living that their populations had come to expect during the ... about maintaining power, not achieving democracy, and they may calculate that even limited increases in participation will strengthen their survival prospects in the long term.22 They therefore...

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... Claiming the Future: Choosing Prosperity in the Middle East and North Africa, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1995; International Monetary Fund, Building on Progress: Reform and Growth in the Middle ... trying to regulate overdraught of groundwater Obtaining Food The Middle East is the least food-self-sufficient region in the world During the 1980s, demand growth decelerated (thanks to declining ... the factors inhibiting investment and therefore growth However, there is an emerging consensus that, in the Middle East as 2 3The large majority of external debt in Middle Eastern countries...

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... reductions in infant and child mortality The only way to explain the combination of falling incomes per capita and increasing consumption of food is to posit an increase in the equality of income ... Government Printing Office, 2001 42Central Inteligence Agency, 2001 100 The Future Security Environment in the Middle East high for as long as they will elsewhere in the region (although increasing female ... say they cannot find Saudis with suitable training Privately, they also complain that few Saudis have the kind of work ethic that they wish to see in their employees There is evidence that the...

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... in the capital Leader Incentives Analyzing the strategies and tactics leaders use to maintain political control of their militaries provides insight into the internal logic of these regimes They ... Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East 145 sidelining the charismatic Abu Ghazala in 1989, Mubarak appointed colorless, and therefore nonthreatening, individuals to top positions in the military hierarchy ... 132 The Future Security Environment in the Middle East Forces and other loyal military units; at the time Rifaat was in charge of the mainline force for regime security Similarly, riots in the...

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... 447, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 21, 2000 188 The Future Security Environment in the Middle East cies and lambaste the “Jewish lobby” in Washington 56 ... unavoidable part of the regional security calculus The most pressing policy problems confronting the United States and its allies in the Middle East, including terrorism, the stabilization and ... 1991 202 The Future Security Environment in the Middle East turmoil in the Middle East, these considerations have brought energy security back to the foreign and security policy agenda The Outlook...

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... from the construction of a new line across the Maghreb, bringing 210 The Future Security Environment in the Middle East Algerian gas to Spain via Morocco and the Strait of Gibraltar In the near ... 2002, Washington, D.C., July 20, 2002, et al 230 The Future Security Environment in the Middle East there.4 The late Prince Ahmed Bin Salman, the son of the governor of Riyadh, was the principal ... well as infrastructure bringing gas to European markets from Eurasia, North Africa, and elsewhere in the Middle East Europe is used to thinking about the security of gas Starting in the early...

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... can influence patterns of proliferation inside the region Taken together, these factors explain the growing prominence of WMD in Middle Eastern security They also illustrate the issue’s increasing ... Destruction in the Middle East 255 (Egyptian Scuds and Syrian Frog-7s), in the “war of the cities” between Iran and Iraq, in the civil war in Yemen, and during the 1991 Gulf War They have been fired, ineffectively, ... unclear The Information Revolution and the Middle East 243 IMPLICATIONS The changes in the information environment in the Middle East have broad implications for regional societies, regimes, and the...

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... support The Policies of Russia and China Whether Russia and China become more hostile to the United States in the coming decade and whether their perceived interests in the Middle East increase ... explicitly at the north as a whole The security of areas on the periphery of the Middle East can, of course, be affected by the growth of WMD arsenals within the region In particular, the increasing range ... akin to the role of nuclear and missile forces in European defense during the Cold War But unlike the situation in Cold War Europe, there is no prospect that a WMD-armed war in the Middle East...

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