North Africa & Middle East

Middle East North Africa Sustainable Electricity Trajectories

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Political Stability, Corruption, Democracy and Terrorism In the Middle East and North Africa

Terrorism has been considered as a challenge with serious effect in the world as a result of instability, corruption and lack of democracy in most countries. Confronting this phenomenon requires recognizing its roots to find possible solutions. This study aims to examine the effect of some actual factors which causes the terrorism in short and long run. To this end, investigation has been condu...

Middle East and North Africa consensus on osteoporosis.

With the increasing life expectancy, osteoporosis is becoming a major worldwide health problem. The magnitude of the disease may become larger in developing countries, more particularly in the Middle East region where the prevalence of low bone mass is higher than in western countries. Although several local organizations and countries have developed guidelines for osteoporosis, no previous reg...

Structural Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa

P ar t 1 S tr uc tu ra l R ef or m s in th e M id dl e Ea st a nd N or th A fr ic a After more than twenty years of rapid economic growth, falling oil prices in the mid-1980s and an abrupt decline in investment and growth pushed Arab governments to rethink their basic frameworks for economic management (Page 1998; World Bank 1995).2 The post-independence Arab socialist period left virtually all...