WATER MANAGEMENT IN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

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...

Economic Consequences of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa Region Countries

From the first reported case of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on December 30, 2019 in Wuhan, China, the number of confirmed cases of the disease has been increased continuously and exponentially up to now. The event has emerged as a clear threat to global health such that the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the outbreak of the disease a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The ...

Middle East North Africa Sustainable Electricity Trajectories

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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...