Bahrain
- Capital:
Manama - Population:
738004 - Size:
665.0 Km2
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- Improving employment prospects for the young in the MENA region
- International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2011
- The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region presents the largest cohort of youth after sub-Saharan Africa, with young people making up 20 per cent of the total population in NENA. Ths paper, prepared for the 34th session of the...
- Better integrated management of water resources and regulation is needed to manage chronic water scarcity in this region
- K. Frenken (ed) / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
- This FAO report aims to provide an accurate status of rural water resources management, with a special focus on irrigation, highlighting the major changes that have occurred in the last decade. In each country, the paper fea...
- Urgent need for climate change adaptation measures in Arab countries
- M.K. Tolba (ed); N.W. Saab (ed) / Arab Forum for Environment and Development, 2009
- Although greenhouse gas emissions from the Arab world amount to 4.2% of global emissions, the impact of climate change on the fragile environment of the region and its people is expected to be immense. This report aims to provide info...
- Guidance for NGOs on human rights work in the Middle East and North Africa
- A. Bendrif; S. al Karaguly; M. Laghzaoui; et al. / Network Learning, 2009
- The international human rights system has been slow to develop in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. However, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) can play an important role advocat...
- Ensuring human security can lead to better opportunities for human development in the Arab world
- M. El-Sayyid; M. Al-Rasheed; S. Benjelloun; Et al / Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2009
- This report examines human development in the Arab world through a human security lens, calling on policymakers and other stakeholders to move away from a state-centric conception of security to one which also concentrates on the secu...
- Arab governments losing their grip on freedom of expression
- E. Zelaky; S. Sami; D. Ziada / The Initiative for an Open Arab Internet, 2007
- Arab governments have maintained a tradition of restricting freedom of expression using national security and religious morals as grounds for censorship, and the ‘war on terror’ has given them an excuse to further extend t...
- Openness to trade helps small island states attract foreign investment
- Robert Read / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Foreign direct investment has the potential to contribute to growth and development in small island developing states. But little is known about what drives investment flows to small island states. How do SIDS attract foreign investme...
- Genuine democratisation may stem extremism
- D. D. Kaye; F Wehrey / RAND Corporation, 2008
- Promotion of democracy is seen as a solution to terrorism but there are also arguments that democracy can do little to stop terrorism. However, scant empirical evidence links democracy to terrorism, positively or negatively. This stud...
- what are the challenges and opportunities for women entrepreneurs in the MENA region?
- International Finance Corporation, 2007
- This project report aims to provide relevant and focused information on the characteristics, contributions and challenges of women business owners in five Middle East and North African (MENA) countries: Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunis...
- Democracy a concept rather than reality in the Arab world
- M. Zaki / Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies, 2007
- All Arab leaders advocate democracy and claim that they are committed to democratic reforms. Tangible results, however, are hard to find. Arab countries are still ruled by authoritarian regimes and rulers are more concerned with retai...
- Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR)
- Promoting human rights in Bahrain
- Bahrain Centre for Studies and Research, Bahrain (BCSR)
- Governmental research support centre
