Author: United Nations Economic and Social Office in BeirutPublisher: New York : United Nations
ISBN:
Category : Amman (Jordan)
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Challenges of Growth and Globalization in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: Mr.Hamid R DavoodiPublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 9781589062290
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is an economically diverse region. Despite undertaking economic reforms in many countries, and having considerable success in avoiding crises and achieving macroeconomic stability, the region’s economic performance in the past 30 years has been below potential. This paper takes stock of the region’s relatively weak performance, explores the reasons for this out come, and proposes an agenda for urgent reforms.
Expanding Opportunities for the Next Generation
Author: Safaa El-KogaliPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464803242
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Early childhood is the most important stage of human development yet in Middle East and North Africa countries there is little research and inadequate investment in this crucial stage of life. This book covers risk, protective factors, policies and programs that can address inequality and shortfalls in the early years of life.
Public Health in the Arab World
Author: Samer JabbourPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521516749
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
This volume reviews the public health concerns and challenges specific to the complex Arab world from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Challenges Of Economic Development In The Middle East And North Africa Region
Author: Julia C DevlinPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814471658
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
This book surveys major economic issues in the development of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since World War II. It presents a framework of analysis highlighting underlying continuities in the region's approach to issues of growth, management of oil and natural resources, post-conflict environments, progress in trade liberalization and regional integration, the use of industrial policy, labor market adjustment and unemployment, educational attainment and poverty incidence. At the same time, this book focuses on emerging differences across countries in the region in the prevailing approach to addressing such challenges most notably between the economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council and other MENA countries.This book also incorporates a discussion of tools and methods used by development practitioners and briefly examines issues of aid effectiveness. The approach used is intended to appeal to a wide audience including students of economic development, political scientists and development practitioners.
Population and Development in the Middle East
Author: United Nations. Economic Commission for Western AsiaPublisher: Beirut : United Nations, Economic Commission for Western Asia
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Subsidy Reform in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: Mr.Carlo A SdralevichPublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1498350437
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries price subsidies are common, especially on food and fuels. However, these are neither well targeted nor cost effective as a social protection tool, often benefiting mainly the better off instead of the poor and vulnerable. This paper explores the challenges of replacing generalized price subsidies with more equitable social safety net instruments, including the short-term inflationary effects, and describes the features of successful subsidy reforms.
Rulers, Religion, and Riches
Author: Jared RubinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703681X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.
Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: Dawn ChattyPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047417755
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
A scholarly volume devoted to an understanding of contemporary nomadic and pastoral societies in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume recognizes the variable mobile quality of the ways of life of these societies which persist in accommodating the ‘nation-state’ of the 20th and 21st century but remain firmly transnational and highly adaptive. Composed of four sections around the theme of contestation it includes examinations of contested authority and power, space and social transformation, development and economic transformation, and cultures and engendered spaces.
Liberation Technology
Author: Larry DiamondPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421405687
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Liberation Technology brings together cutting-edge scholarship from scholars and practitioners at the forefront of this burgeoning field of study. An introductory section defines the debate with a foundational piece on liberation technology and is then followed by essays discussing the popular dichotomy of liberation'' versus "control" with regard to the Internet and the sociopolitical dimensions of such controls. Additional chapters delve into the cases of individual countries: China, Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia.
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