are mirrored in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This report by the IPC-IG and UNICEF MENARO focuses on the role …

are mirrored in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This report by the IPC-IG and UNICEF MENARO focuses on the role …

This book reviews the experience of the Middle East and North Africa region with poverty and human development since … the mid-1980s. It finds that poverty rates did not decline by much during this period while health and education … indicators improved substantially. The stagnation of poverty rates is ascribed to the stagnation of the region's economies during …

Poverty and charity in the rise of Islam / Michael Bonner -- Status-based definitions of need in early Islamic Zakat … margins of charity : coping with poverty in an Ottoman provincial city / Eyal Ginio -- The charity of the Khedive / Mine Ener … -- Imperial gifts and sultanic legitimation during the late Ottoman empire, 1876-1909 / Nadir (c)zbek -- Al-Tahtawi on poverty and …

Intro -- POVERTY AND CHARITY IN MIDDLE EASTERN CONTEXTS -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note to the Reader … -- Introduction -- Part I: Entitlement and Obligation -- 1. Poverty and Charity in the Rise of Islam by Michael Bonner -- 2. Status … the Margins of Charity: Coping with Poverty in an Ottoman Provincial City by Eyal Ginio -- 9. The Charity of the Khedive …