... Overview of Urbanization in Asiaandthe Near East 3 Global Trends in Urbanization and Urbanism The world is urbanizing rapidly. Between 1950 and 2000, the percentage of the world’s total population ... Heisler 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 ... responsible for the focus on the health of children under five years of age, and he was the leader in the definition of the health status and determinants indicators that framed the literature...
... around the world about population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that information to advance the well-being of current and future generations.PRB’s MiddleEastand North ... Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding, spotlighting the “World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond,” first adopted in 1995 and developed further since then. The World ... 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 region with secular laws governing their family...
... lopme nt in the region. The commonproblem boils down to the role of the state and its institutions in variousareas of the business environment. The report goes beyond the laws and the regulatory ... access to land (chapter 6), and the conduct of industrial policies (chapter 7). The aim is to show how the role of the state and its institutions, when diverted from their regulatory and administrative ... such as the Arab Republic of Egypt and Tunisia, gained momentum in the 1980s, and accelerated in the1 990s inother countries such as Algeria, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Republic ofYemen, and...
... comparisons with other aggregates, such as theMiddleEastand North Africa’ or theMiddleEast as used by other agencies including the United Nations and the World Bank. If theMiddleEast is clearly—as ... NAMES The Arabic language is used over a vast area. Though the written language andthe script are standard throughout theMiddle East, the spoken language and also the pronunciation of the written ... and exports passing through the city’s harbours. ALF —see Arab Liberation Front A political and economic dictionary of themiddleeast 26ensuring that the politics and economics of the Middle...
... in EastAsiaand Latin America. But the fact re-mains that the average gross enrollment rate in secondary schools inMENA in 2003 was 75 percent, compared to 78 and 90 percent for East Asia and ... rates.14 The Road Not TraveledMoreover, there seems to be a big difference in the path taken by the MENA region in expanding the average level of education among the population compared with the ... growing demand and the emergence of new and dynamic sectors. In the Arab Republic ofEgypt, for example, the expansion of secondary and higher educationwas ahead of full enrollment at the lower...
... Threats The most important and dramatic change remains the dissolution of the Soviet Union andthe Warsaw Pact andthe ratcheting down of the likelihood of a nuclear confrontation between the nuclear ... such arguments hardly mattered when the United States and the Soviet Union each had thousands of nuclear weapons and the other players had only a handful. If U.S. and Russian arsenalswere cut drastically ... However, there couldbe significant differences. The problem is that the Chinese might notunderstand the “rules of the game” the way the United States does.That is one interpretation of both 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 United ... security and stability.Addressing the American role and perspective on theMiddle East, one Americanspeaker noted that the United States will be preoccupied with theMiddleEast for at least15Some ... providingdecisionmakers andthe public with rigorous, objective research on critical policy issuesaffecting theMiddle East. For more information on the RAND Center for MiddleEast Public Policy, contact the Director,...
... older persons in Asiaandthe Pacific. I. Key gaps and challenges The Forum identified the following gaps and challenges facing elderly care services in Asia andthe Pacific: A. ... religious beliefs (or the interpretations thereof) and some traditional practices. II. Recommendations To address the gaps and challenges identified above, the Forum recommended the following: ... address the above gaps and challenges, the Forum recommended that Governments, civil society, the private sector and intergovernmental and international organizations work closely together to...
... development and under 5 mortality rate in Asiaandthe Pacific……………………………………………… 15 Figure 15: The relationship between inclusive financial development andthe HIV prevalence rate in Asiaandthe ... development and poverty reduction in Asiaandthe Pacific……………………………………………………. 14 Figure 12: The relationship between inclusive financial development and primary enrolment rate in Asiaandthe ... development and poverty rates in Asiaandthe Pacific………………………… 10 Figure 7: The relationship between equity market based measure of financial development and poverty rates in Asiaandthe Pacific…………………………...
... (million)Non-AsiaAsiaNote: Extrapolation and interpolation were used to estimate urbanization level and corresponding starting years for Latin America andthe Caribbean and Northern America.Sources: ... indicatorsI. Asian Development Bank. The views expressed in this book do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) or its Board of Governors or the governments they ... and Governance. Each theme is further divided into subtopics. The tables contain indicators related to a subtopic. The MDGs and themes in Parts II and III start with a brief...
... the most important commercial commodities in Asia, particularly Southeast Asia. Presently, the rubber areas in Asia are free from SALB. If SALB were to establish and spread in the PRAareas the ... to pose the greatest danger of disease establishment in the region, other pathways need to beexamined and their potential risks determined. The Plant Protection Agreement for theAsiaand Pacific ... OF THE APPPCFunctions of the Commission1. The function of the Commission shall include:a. the determination of procedures and arrangements necessary for the implementation of the Agreementand...
... breeding and their potential for aquaculture. During the late 1970s and early 1980s they were introduced to Hawaii andthe Eastern Atlantic Coast of the Americas from South Carolina and Texas in the ... across Asia, Table 5). 10 Peru. From here, they were introduced to the North-western Pacific coast of the Americas in the USA and Hawaii, and to the Eastern Atlantic coast from Carolina and ... ppt (where the environment andthe blood are isosmotic) (Wyban and Sweeny, 1991). This ability makes it a good candidate for the newer inland farms that have become common in Asiaand Latin...