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The Omani and Bahraini paths to development: Rare and contrasting oil-based economic success stories

Looney, Robert - 2009

Oman and Bahrain are Middle Eastern success stories. There are some key similarities. Both have followed pragmatic development strategies built on a stable foundation of strengthened governance structures and enhanced economic liberalization. These improvements occurred in somewhat different...

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Information and communications technology in the middle east: Situation as of 2010 and prospective scenarios for 2030

Abbassi, Jawad - 2011

This study analyzes the progress in information and communication technologies (ICT) in eleven MED countries and how they compare to the rest of the world in terms of sector's sophistication and development. In recent years, most countries of this region opened up their markets for multiple...

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Private sector development in the South and East Mediterranean region

Woodward, Richard; Safavi, Mehdi - 2012

This report is concerned with the analysis of privatization and private sector development for the eastern and southernMediterranean countries partnered with the European Union and collectively known as MED-11. Noting that the analysis applies to the situation prior to the dislocations of the...

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Climate change and water resources in the Middle East: Vulnerability, socio-economic impacts, and adaption

El- Fadel, Mutasem; Bou-Zeid, Elie R. - 2001

While the extent of human induced global warming is inconclusive, the vulnerability of natural systems to rapid changes in climate patterns is regarded as one of the most challenging issues in recent years. Water resources are a main component of natural systems that might be affected by climate...

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The Political Economy of Regional Power: Turkey under the AKP

Bank, André; Karadag, Roy - 2012

In 2006/2007 Turkey became a regional power in the Middle East, a status it has continued to maintain in the context of the Arab Spring. To understand why Turkey only became a regional power under the Muslim AKP government and why this happened at the specific point in time that it did, the...

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Political Change in the Middle East: An Attempt to Analyze the "Arab Spring"

Beck, Martin; Hüser, Simone - 2012

This article deals with the Arab Spring as a process of deep political change in the Arab world, previously the only major world area where authoritarianism persisted unchallenged for decades. While in various countries of the Arab world mass protests in 2011 forced rulers to resign, other...

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Constraints to Economic Development and Growth in the Middle East and North Africa

Brach, Juliane - 2008

Vergleicht man Geschwindigkeit und Umfang der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung der verschiedenen Weltregionen in den … diesem Aufsatz wird versucht, von den unterschiedlichen Hemmfaktoren wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung, die in der … Entwicklung am stärksten behindern oder möglicherweise stärker als andere. Dabei benutze ich modernste ökonometrische Verfahren …

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Is there fiscal space for financing an Arab development transformation?

Roy, Rathin; Abu-Ismail, Khalid; Almeida Ramos, Raquel - 2012

[Introduction] The fundamental development challenge in the Arab region is one of economic transformation or, more pertinent, a lack thereof. Heavy sectoral weights of extractive industries lead to dependence on global oil prices, even in oil-producing countries. The structure of production...

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ICT opportunities and challenges for development in the Arab World

Nour, Samia Satti O. M. - 2002

This paper examines the status of ICT in the Arab world and the potential opportunities and challenges that ICT is expected to create for development in the region. The analysis shows that, despite the recent growth in the demand for ICT, it has a very limited market in the Arab region, as...

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Corporate social responsibility research: The importance of context

Tilt, Carol A. - In: International Journal of Corporate Social … 1 (2016) 2, pp. 1-9

There has, in recent times, been an increasing interest in understanding corporate social (and environmental) responsibility (CSR) and, in particular, CSR reporting in developing countries. However, many of these studies fail to investigate fully the contextual factors that influence CSR and...

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