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    Millions in Cairo remain homeless while houses stand empty

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Cairo is the largest city in Africa and the Middle East. It houses over 11 million people illegally in roof-top slums and its infamous ‘Cities of the Dead’, where thousands of people live among the gravestones of cemeteries. At the same time, nearly two million apartments stand empty.
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    HIV and AIDS terminology guide and glossary for English-Arabic users

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2006
    The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is experiencing one of the fastest growing AIDS epidemic rates in the world, yet stigma, denial and ignorance of HIV remain rampant. Language can shape public opinion, perception, attitudes and may influence behaviours. Thus, language should be constructive, dispel myths and stereotypes, and not contribute to prejudice.
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    Impacts of climate change on Blue Nile flows using bias-corrected GCM scenarios

    Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2008
    This study analyses the output of 17 global circulation models (GCM’s) included in the 4th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report. Downscaled pre-cipitation and potential evapo-transpiration (PET) scenarios for the 2081–2098 period are constructed for the upper Blue Nile basin.
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    Business solutions for human development

    United Nations Development Programme, 2008
    Business Solutions for Human Development Report 2007 assesses the current and potential scope of business engagement for the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Egypt.
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    Has policy-based lending by the IMF and World Bank been effective in the Arab world?

    Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS, 2008
    This article provides a brief assessment of the effects of policy based lending by the IMF and World Bank in four typical countries in the Middle East and North Africa: Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia. All four countries have received extensive lending based on adopting programmes of stabilisation and structural adjustment.
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    The EMPOWERS approach to water governance: guidelines , methods and tools

    EMPOWERS Partnership Programme, 2007
    Water is an increasingly scarce and contested resource around the world, particularly in the Middle East. There is general agreement about the need to improve water governance - the process of making and implementing decisions about water.
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    More freedom, less terror? liberalisation and political violence in the Arab World

    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 study examines whether such links exist by exploring cases from the Arab world—the region that inspired this debate in the first place.
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    The status of rural poverty in the Near East and North Africa

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2007
    Poverty in the Near East and North Africa region (NENA) is mainly a rural phenomenon. Almost half (48%) the area’s population lives in rural areas. This report focuses on key rural poverty issues in 13 diverse countries in the region, without attempting to propose policy or programme actions at national or local levels.
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    Arab Organisation for Human Rights (AOHR)

    The AOHR carries out field missions in an effort to release political prisoners, in some cases as an observer and in other as a member of the defence panel.
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    Foreign aid and economic growth in Egypt and Jordan: an empirical analysis

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2008
    The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in both Egypt and Jordan. It uses a newly developed approach to co-integration that is designed to perform with small samples and regardless of the orders of the respective time series.

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