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  Society and the uncivil state: land tenure reform in Egypt and the crisis of rural livelihoods

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2004

  This paper examines the impact of recent changes in the relationship between landowners and tenants in Egypt.
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  Adolescent programming in conflict and post conflict situations

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2004

  Nine case studies are presented in this paper to demonstrate how participation in peace building enhances the protection of adolescents in conflict and post conflict situations. It also aims to illustrate how participation contributes to the success of UNICEF’s approach to human rights-based and results-based programming.
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  Education in the Middle East and North Africa: the current situation and future challenges

  International Education Journal, 2004

  This paper investigates the educational development in the Middle East and North Africa. The paper reviews similarities between countries within the region, as well as comparisons between other developing countries and investigates the situation of basic education, literacy rates and quality of education.
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  Fiscal policy and growth in Africa: fiscal federalism, decentralization and the incidence of taxation

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  The paper investigates the tax reforms undertaken in a sample of randomly selected five African countries, taken together, namely Egypt, Senegal, Gabon, Kenya and Zambia. Reflecting the government's greatly expanding role in the economy, total public sector expenditure increased rapidly over the last two decades. However, public sector revenue growth has not matched public expenditure growth.
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  Civil society budget monitoring for national accountability

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This report is based on a three day budget tracking workshop held in Malawi in February 2004 which brought together individuals and representatives of organisations involved in budget monitoring, or developing monitoring processes and tools, with a view to developing a supportive community of practice.Issues highlighted in this report include:budget making is where the real prioritisat
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  Health sector reform: how it affects reproductive health

  Population Reference Bureau, 2003

  This brief discusses the steps health managers need to take to ensure that reproductive health objectives are met within the wider aims of health sector reforms.
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  Effective distribution of social safety nets in Arab economies

  Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2002

  [Document in Arabic] The paper aims to analyse the social safety net system in order to clarify the relationship between income distribution, growth and poverty in Arab economies. It attempts to determine the distributive pattern of financial aid provided by social safety net systems for the different strata of society.
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  Determinants of unemployment duration for men and women in Turkey

  Economic Research Center, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 2004

  This paper examines the determinants of the probability of leaving unemployment in Turkey. The paper uses individual level unemployment duration data constructed from the quarterly Household Labor Force Surveys (HLFS) of 2000 and 2001. The authors examine the determinants of unemployment duration in a hazard function framework.
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  Employment budget priorities and micro enterprises

  Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt, 2002

  The purpose of this paper is to reflect on current conditions in Egypt's labour market and to examine a number of existing opportunities to exploit in favor of a new and innovative path for growth and development.
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  Straddling faultlines: India’s foreign policy toward the Greater Middle East

  Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, 2003

  India’s strategic and economic needs have shifted greatly since the end of the Cold War, and this is particularly true with respect to the Greater Middle East (GME) region. During the Cold War, India’s foreign policy was guided by Nehru’s legacy of non-alignment, with close ties to Egypt, the Palestinian movement, and a generally favourable standing within the Arab world.

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