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Integrated paradigm for sustainable development: a panel data study
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011In the developing world, there is a clear trade-off between economic growth and environmental security.DocumentHow stock exchange M&As affect their competitors’ shareholder value?: evidence from the world and MENA region
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011The stock exchange mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have become a trend recently because of capital market globalisation, the innovation of technology, and stock exchange demutualisation. This paper empirically investigates the effects of stock exchange M&As on their competitors’ shareholder value.DocumentAn analysis of the mobile telephone sector in MENA: potential for deregulation and privatization
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011This study evaluates the growth and trend in the mobile telephone sector in several Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries between 1995 and 2007.DocumentLocal employment growth in the coastal area of Tunisia: a dynamic spatial panel approach
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011Since the mid-1980s, Tunisia has conducted a structural adjustment program characterised by more privatisation and economic opening, yet this transition has created unequal growth in the employment opportunities between coastal and interior regions.DocumentAfrican perspectives on the UN Peacebuilding Commission
2006A meeting, in Maputo, Mozambique, on 3 and 4 August 2006, analysed the relevance for Africa of the creation, in December 2005, of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, and examined how countries emerging from conflict could benefit from its establishment.DocumentUnited Nations mediation experience in Africa
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) in Cape Town, South Africa, on behalf of the United Nations (UN) Department of Political Affairs (DPA), hosted a two-day meeting on the theme: “Operationalising Mediation Support: Lessons from Mediation Experience in Africa.” The meeting was held in Cape Town, South Africa, October 2006.DocumentThe United Nations and Africa: peace, development and human security
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007The UN Security Council adopted 195 resolutions on African conflicts between 2000 and 2006. Since more than two-thirds of the Security Council’s agenda focuses on African issues in any given month, some on the continent feel that Africa has effectively become an experimental and legitimising field for new UN initiatives, institutions, norms and doctrines.DocumentFiscal regimes in and outside the MENA region
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011Countries that depend on hydrocarbons in general have strong incentives for implementing fiscal stabilisation instruments in the form of fiscal rules; however, the resource-rich but largely democracy-deficient MENA region has been a fiscal rules-free region.DocumentAfrica's responsibility to protect: seminar report
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007A perennial issue confronting the international community is the degree to which international society is responsible for the protection of civilians during humanitarian crises. The “responsibility to protect” principle imparts the international community with three commitments: the responsibility to prevent; the responsibility to react; and the responsibility to rebuild.DocumentAfrica's evolving human rights architecture
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2008Since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 in which about 800,000 people were killed, human rights protection has been placed on the continental agenda by the African Union (AU) and Africa’s regional economic communities (RECs) such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC); the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS); the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD); aPages