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South-South Trade: An Asian Perspective
Athukorala, Prema-Chandra - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to inform the contemporary policy debate on promoting trade among developing countries (South–South trade) by analyzing trade patterns of developing Asian economies from a comparative global perspective. The paper begins with a stage-setting historical overview of...
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The dynamics of women's labour supply in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010
that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … but positive in Africa. We suggest that amongst reasons why African women behave differently are that the conventional … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses …
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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time: the impact of remittances on the fertility rate
Naufal, George S.; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009
In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...
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Private sector development in the South and East Mediterranean region
Woodward, Richard; Safavi, Mehdi - 2012
also the most developed private sector, accounting for almost 80% of employment. The other countries of the region can be …
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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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The Armadollar-Petrodollar Coalition and the Middle East
Rowley, Robin; Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 1989
This is the third paper in a series of four essays that deal with recent developments affecting the political economy of armaments. It begins by identifying the ‘military bias paradox’ of divergent behaviour, whereby the large armament corporations experienced an almost uninterrupted growth...
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The Armadollar-Petrodollar Coalition: Demise or New Order?
Bichler, Shimshon; Rowley, Robin; Nitzan, Jonathan - 1989
This is the final paper in a series of four essays that deal with the political economy of armament and oil. Since the 1980s, military imports to the Middle East increased while revenues from oil exports declined substantially. These disparities highlight structural changes which affect the...
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Probleme des Rentierstaats-Ansatzes in vergleichender Perspektive
Beck, Martin - 2006
Der in den 1980er Jahren entwickelte Rentierstaats-Ansatz hat die Diskussion über die sozioökonomische und politische Entwicklung des Vorderen Orients geprägt. Freilich haben sich die Anhänger des Ansatzes bisher zu stark auf die Analyse positiver Fälle konzentriert und sind der Kritik...
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