Development in the Middle East and North Africa
Demographic and Human Development in the Middle East and North Africa
... dle East and North Africa ...the Middle East and North Africa have been described as “peculiar” and ...the development of fertility got attention from a western ...
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Development assistance for health and the Middle East and North Africa
... (OECD) Development As- sistance Committee (DAC) and usually high-income countries, several other middle-income countries have gradually emerged in the global health financing ...South Africa, ...
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Measuring Financial Development in the Middle East and North Africa: A New Database
... Much of the data appears in a mix of quantitative and qualitative forms. For example, in coding concentration in the banking sector, we were able to determine that in Bahrain, two of 21 commercial banks account for 57 ...
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The insurance sector in the Middle East and North Africa : challenges and development agenda
... MENA’s relative position does not change significantly controlling for income levels. As shown in Figure 1, only Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia have larger non-life premiums than those predicted by their levels of per ...
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Female oncologists in the Middle East and North Africa: progress towards gender equality
... Methods A cross-sectional survey was distributed among female participants attending the annual Lebanese Society of Medical Oncology meeting in March 2018, and in the Pan-Arab annual meeting in April 2018. The ...
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Bank ownership and performance in the Middle East and North Africa region
... financial development and GDP ...financial development is not ...financial development and the quality of political institutions are low, conditions that tend to prevail in developing ...
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PAYMENT AND SECURITIES SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
... Automatic Clearinghouses (ACH) for payment instruments that are fully electronic have been launched or are in the process of being launched only in a few MENA countries. In particular, only 5 (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, ...
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Forest Fires in Europe Middle East and North Africa 2013
... To face the recurring and imponderable phenomenon of fire, a National Plan of Prevention and Fight against forest fires (in French: Plan Directeur de Prévention et de Lutte Contre les Incendies ‘’PDCI’’) was adopted with ...
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Options for New Financing Mechanisms for the Middle East and North Africa
... 6. Against this adverse background, the World Bank Group (WBG) is developing a new strategy for its engagement in MENA, aimed at promoting economic and social inclusion to contribute to peace and stability in the region. ...
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IMPACT IFC IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA FISCAL YEAR
... IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. Working with more than 2,000 businesses worldwide, we use our capital, ...
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IPO lockup expiration in the Middle East and North Africa region
... Venture-backed firms experience a market reaction around the unlock date that is three times stronger than that of non-venture-backed firms (Field and Hanka, 2001). Ac- cording to Jeng and Wells (1998), venture capitals ...
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Low cost carriers in the Middle East and North Africa: Prospects and strategies
... within Africa LCCs account for around 10% of total seat ...Europe, North America and Southeast ...economic development in which inhibits faster growth for ...
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Public infrastructure and private investment in the Middle East and North Africa
... the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is primarily due to the “slow, uneven and hesitant pace” of structural reforms launched in the late 1980s and early 1990s (see World Bank (2003a) ...
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Uses and gratifications of social media in the Middle East North Africa region
... A competitive business world had raised up from the innovations in the new ICT services, with unique success stories in various sectors such as Amazon in online shopping, Google in search engines, SoundCloud in music, ...
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In Time of Troubles: Challenges and Prospects in the Middle East and North Africa
... The Middle East and North Africa remained relatively powerful until the 18th century despite the shift of economic power to northern Europe at the beginning of the 14th ...economic ...
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Water resources trends in Middle East and North Africa towards 2050
... Uncertainty in the results presented originates mainly from (i) models, (ii) data, and (iii) projections. The hydrologi- cal model used here is based on the well-established PC- Raster framework and the PCR-GLOBWB ...
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Economic analysis of milk production and consumption in the Middle East and North Africa
... Agricultural Development (AOAD), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in addition to some online data from the internet, as well as some studies related to the researched ...the ...
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Invest Saudi. The #1 FDI recipient in the Middle East & North Africa
... A farsighted leadership committed to economic development and the well-being of its nation. “The world we live in is constantly changing. For this reason, we are committed to continue with our work to develop the ...
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A review of credit guarantee schemes in the Middle East and North Africa Region
... The World Bank conducted the first large scale cross-country survey of PCGs in 2008 (Beck, Klapper, and Mendoza, 2008). The objective of this survey was to provide an overview of the key features of guarantee schemes ...
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Financial inclusion in the Middle East and North Africa : analysis and roadmap recommendations
... State banks and post offices can have extensive branch networks for extending access to financial services. One of the largest branch networks in the region is that of the Principal Bank for Development and ...
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