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Die Machtpolitik Saudi-Arabiens im Syrienkonflikt. Eine Analyse vor dem Hintergrund geschichtlicher und religiöser Entwicklungen
Dietlmeier, Simon Frederic - 2024
The research examines Saudi Arabia's foreign policy against the background of the Syrian conflict. It focuses in particular on religious and historical backgrounds, which are of great importance for understanding developments in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia's changing role in a region that has...
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Assessment of the Foreign Non-Government Organizations' Role in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011
The study presented here reviews activities of NGOs in Sudan. That was a disputable issue that resulted in a mass expulsion of many in 2009. However¸ there were precedents of such expulsions in previous and following years. The paper discusses humanitarian work in Sudan, positive and negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015227805
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on Manpower Export: An Econometric Analysis of Survival Strategies of Recruiting Agencies in Bangladesh
Mannan, Kazi Abdul; Farhana, Khandaker Mursheda; … - 2020
The COVID-19 outbreak led the governments of many countries to impose restrictions on non-essential travel to countries affected by coronavirus, indefinitely suspending tourism travel, work visas and immigrant visas. Some countries placed a complete travel ban on all forms of inward or outward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015221706
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Gendered Impact of Microcredit in Mali: An Evaluation by Propensity Score Matching
Koloma, Yaya; Alia, Hayyan - 2014
The objective of the paper is to rigorously test whether the potential effects of microcredit on poverty reduction are …, regarding loan amounts, women seem to use greater proportions of the loan and are more committed to using the money for income …-generating purposes. At the same time, the level of savings relative to the loan amount is the same for the two genders. From an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015256904
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Social Protection and The Politics of Anger in the Middle East and North Africa
Cerami, Alfio - 2015
This article investigates the confessional resource dependent welfare regimes of the Middle East and North Africa. It emphasizes the elite-captured nature of resources as well as the dependence of these regimes on oil and gas revenues or the acquisition from state-assets. The article pays a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015263103
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Social Aspects of Transformation
Cerami, Alfio - 2015
The fall of the Berlin Wall marked not the end of the transition to democracy but its beginning, with still uncertain outcomes in terms of electoral continuity and change. In order to provide a more comprehensive picture of the regime vulnerabilities and instabilities that stem from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015263140
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Eudemonia and Freedom: A Bibliometric Research on Frontiers and Evolution of Labour and Employment in China
Xu, Tao; Zhu, Weiwei - 2021
Eudemonia, the highest and ultimate aim of moral thought and behaviour, is a rational activity pursuing what is worthwhile in life, and its integral part, virtue, is honoured as the noblest self-actualisation. Freedom, a human right naturally belonging to each citizen, should be balanced and...
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Pensionamento flessibile e (ri)equilibrio tra generazioni
Salerno, Nicola Carmine - 2013
The paper proposes a method to speed up the transition toward the notional contributions pension system in Italy. It seems the most appropriate manner to combine and pursue employment and financial sustainability goals. The method computes percentages for abating the old retributive pensions...
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La demografia dell’Italia e delle Regioni italiane. Uno sguardo alle proiezioni a medio-lungo termine
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - 2013
The demographic database of Istat (www.istat.it)is explored and the main facts are extracted and described, both at the aggregate national level as well as at the regional one. This paper is completely self-standing but, at the same time, poses the basis for a more general analysis that will be...
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DESENVOLVIMENTO NA ÁFRICA SUBSAARIANA AJUDA DA ONU AOS PAÍSES AFRICANOS ANÁLISE DA ÁFRICA DO SUL E LIBÉRIA
Cazotto, Gabriel - 2007
Reports and a theoretical view of the works of Jeffrey Sachs and Amartya Sen, about poverty and its eradication. …
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