The world's attention to the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has often been dominated by headline issues: conflict, sanctions, political turmoil, and rising oil prices. ...
Over the next two decades, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region faces an unprecedented challenge. In 2000, the labor forces of the region totaled some 104 million workers, a figure expect...
Harnessing Trade for Development and Growth in the Middle East
Report by the Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on Middle East Trade Options
Peter Sutherland, Chair Henry Siegman, Project Di...
Investment promotion agencies (IPAs) exist in almost all countries around the world, but there has been no global attempt to determine whether they have been able to significantly influence the inv...
Study on Industrial Policy, Exim Policy and Industrial reforms in India
Subject: Subj. Guide:
Economic Analysis for Managerial Applications Ms. Gulnar Sharma
Submitted by : Bhavik Gandhi (M/FMS/...
While China made impressive achievements in economic growth, and poverty reduction over the last quarter century, it now faces daunting, internal challenges, such as ensuring employment to millions...
APPENDIXES
APPENDIX 1:
Regions and Countries Share of Natural Resources in Total Trade (%)
Table 1: Basic Indicators, 1998–99 Population GNP ($ Trade to GNP (millions) billions) Ratio
FDI to G...
Beyond oil: Reappraising the Gulf States
Further reform will be essential if one of the world’s fastest-growing regions is to seize a broader role in the global economy.
Kito de Boer and John M. Tu...
How can we help poor people earn more from their knowledge-rather than from their sweat and muscle alone? This book is about increasing the earnings of poor people in poor countries from their inno...
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2397.2009. 00628.x Int J Soc Welfare 2009: 18: S52– S61
I N T E R NAT I O NA L J O U R NA L O F SOCIAL WELFARE
ISSN 1369-6866
Bringing social policy back in: a look at the Midd...
The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) brings together the world’s leading scholars and development practitioners for a lively debate on state-of-the-art thinking in deve...
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The Middle East and health
Today’s Lancet focuses on health in the Middle East, following our earlier call for papers.1 The boundaries of the Middle East are much debated; no two internati...