... 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 ... atwww.rand.org.12 the next decade. While 11/9 (the fall of the Berlin wall) had marked the end of the coldWar, 9/11 (the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon) signaled the end ofAmerican ... Britain during the days of the Ottoman empire, the UnitedStates 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...
... 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 CHILDAdopted in 1989, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a legally binding international instrument for the welfare ... Policies for the MiddleEast 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...
... to the role of the state and its institutions in variousareas 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 witnessedin high-growth EastAsia or in Eastern Europe. The ongoing growthslowdown in the Organisation for Economic ... has mainlybeen driven by the oil boom. The recent drop in oil prices and theirvolatility is yet another reminder for these countries that the diversifica-tion of their economies remains a...
... of the Arab countries’, fails to include the non-Arab countries of theMiddleEast and therefore cannot strictly be used to make comparisons with other aggregates, such as theMiddleEast ... 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 theMiddleEast consists of Arabic-speaking ... NAMES The Arabic language is used over a vast area. Though the written language and the script are standard throughout theMiddle East, the spoken language and also the pronunciation of the written...
... Managers) supervised the preparationof the report. The report belongs to the MENA Development Reportsseries, which is coordinated by the Office of the Chief Economist for the MiddleEast 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 Traveledproblem for MENA countries, then, is not the growth of the averageyears of schooling; rather,...
... unlimited The MiddleEast After the Iraq War THE IRAQ EFFECTFrederic Wehrey Dalia Dassa Kaye Jessica WatkinsJeffrey Martini Robert A. Guffey2 The Iraq Effect: TheMiddleEast After the Iraq ... hardened jihadists would “bleed out” to fronts in theMiddle East, Europe, and elsewhere, where xiv The Iraq Effect: TheMiddleEast After the Iraq Warother extraregional powers—most notably Russia ... xxii The Iraq Effect: TheMiddleEast After the Iraq WarJordan. Rather than ignore the extent of this problem because of politi-cal sensitivities (the Jordanian government refuses to use the...
... 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 themiddle 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...
... Reproductive Health in theMiddleEast and NorthAfrica: 76.24Aoyama, Reproductive Health in theMiddleEast and NorthAfrica: 57.25Aoyama, Reproductive Health in theMiddleEast and NorthAfrica: ... although there have beenWOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN THE MIDDLEEAST AND NORTH AFRICAImproving reproductive health care in theMiddleEast andNorth Africa would benefit not just women and their ... Aoyama, Reproductive Health in theMiddleEast andNorth Africa: Well-Being for All (Washington, DC: WorldBank, 2001): 27.3Aoyama, Reproductive Health in theMiddleEast and NorthAfrica: xxi.4...
... compare the stars of economic development, the East Asians, with Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) coun-tries. The World Bank undertook the methodologically standardcomparison of growth of the ... As a result, they alsothreaten to undermine confidence in the U.S. security guarantee.In theMiddle East, the use of WMD is not a hypothetical threat. The Iran-Iraq war witnessed the repeated ... prices:Unlike theEast Asian case, incomes in theMiddleEast grew for the reasons that were fundamentally exogenous to the difficult processof structural transformation. This matters, because the entrenchedhabits...
... terms of the rationale, the strategy, as well as the roadmap, for the creation of Asian bond markets.What are the Asian bonds?Asian bonds share three common factors;Asian issuers, Asian investors ... becreated in East Asia, would they beviable? What is the economicrationale for the creation of regionalbond markets in East Asia? - What would be the structure andcharacteristics of these markets, ... The Structure and Characteristics of East Asian Bond Markets” The following papers were submitted to the Conference as background materials:Rhee, S. Ghon and Gregory R. Stone (2003), The Asian...
... improve the health of these children. The report tries to deal with the questions of what is different about the living situations and life chances of these children (compared with the “average” ... more effectively? These questions are particularly important in Asia and the Near East because of the rapid pace of urbanization in that area. In the next decade most of the U.S. Agency for ... 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 urbanizing...
... to the Palestinians Congressional Research Service 22 (b) the extent to which the provision of such services to such persons furthers the security interests of the United States and of other ... hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on theMiddleEast and South Asia, Lieutenant General Michael Moeller, the current USSC,44 outlined some changes in emphasis for the USSC/INL ... members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had placed a hold on the funds (with Granger not participating in the hold on the INCLE portion).5 The hold on INCLE funding was lifted in the fall...
... broad range of U.S.policy goals in theMiddle East. The authors hopethat, taken together, the essays also provide the 10 THE ROAD AHEAD :MIDDLE EAST POLICY IN THE BUSH A DMINISTRATION’S SECOND ... aimed at the eventual creation of a MiddleEast Free TradeArea and a Greater MiddleEast Initiative forreform, which, in collaboration with the G-8,2 THE ROAD AHEAD :MIDDLE EAST P OLICY IN THE BUSH ... fellow at the Saban Center. He is the Anwar SadatProfessor at the University of Maryland andauthor of The Stakes: America and the Middle East (2002). His many other publications on Middle East politics...
... Iraq, U.S. fortunes in the region, and the politics and stability of theMiddle East. They are now the responsibility of the Obama administration, which inherited the Iraq conflict from its ... accommodating the lack of freedom in theMiddleEast did nothing to make us safe—because in the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty. As long as theMiddleEast remains ... PM5/16/2011 1:20:33 PMObama in theMiddleEast 9Obama’s major challenge in the greater MiddleEast is to resist the temptat ion to fa l l into th i s trap, which wou ld lim it the United States to a...