Listing 1 - 10 of 29 | << page >> |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
This book explores the methodological foundation of Islamic thought premised on the cardinal principle of Tawhid, meaning the Oneness of God as the universal law. The consequential methodological worldview arising from the monotheistic unity of knowledge is explained as the theory of consilience, meaning unity of knowledge as the primal ontological reality leading to its epistemological and phenomenological essentials of reasoning and thereby configuring reality. Masudul Alam Choudhury presents a non-mathematical exposition of the theory and applications of Meta-Science of Tawhid, and brings out the essential monotheistic methodological worldview of science.
Choose an application
This reference volume is the definitive guide to the economics and politics of the Middle East. It provides clear definitions detailing terms, concepts, names and organizations used in relation to current economic or political affairs in the Middle East. Entries define, explain and give further relevant information on countries, regions, ethnic groups, political parties, organizations, policies and disputes.
MIDDLE EAST--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT--DICTIONARIES --- MIDDLE EAST--ECONOMIC CONDITIONS--DICTIONARIES --- Middle East - Economic conditions - Dictionaries. --- Middle East - Economic policy - Dictionaries. --- Middle East - Politics and government - Dictionaries. --- Middle East--Economic conditions--Dictionaries. --- Economic History --- Middle East --- Business & Economics --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Economic conditions --- Economic policy --- Politics and government --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- Asia, West --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Dictionaries --- English
Choose an application
This volume is a collection of selected empirical studies on determinants of economic growth and development in Ethiopia.The core argument for editing this book is to provide an up-to-date picture of the state and patterns of growth and development in Ethiopia. Ethiopia has been under focus in the past due to draughts, war, famine, development changes and the effects of global economic crisis in the country. A main contribution of this volume is that it helps identify selected important determinants of growth and development in Ethiopia and provides an estimation of their effects using up-to-date data, modelling and methods. Taken together the studies provide a comprehensive picture of the state of growth and development, their measurements, causal relationships and evaluation of efficient policies and practices in achieving progress in Ethiopia. The issues covered represent major challenges to the government and development organizations who are aiming at achieving higher growth and alleviating poverty in the country. The studies cover transition from rural agriculture to urban industry and the development of services.
Economic development --- Economic growth. --- Economic development. --- Economics. --- Middle Eastern and North African Economics. --- Economic Growth. --- Regional Development. --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Middle East—Economic conditions.
Choose an application
This book highlights fundamental, but often neglected, issues important for a better understanding of present-day Iran. It underlines the idea that the most effective means for a nation to meet challenges and practices of the modern era lies with the fundamental values and norms that resonate with its inhabitants. This book is meant to be a companion to the author’s published book Iran Revisited: Exploring the Historical Roots of Culture, Economics, and Society that expands upon that book’s ideas, without repeating its theoretical reasoning. Its goal is to offer a better understanding of the current and evolving situations in Iran. In this regard, the author tried to clarify his position through a host of suggestions, most notably, the need to consider social rights as the bare minimum but extremely imperative criteria in our contemporary discourse for the betterment of our society. These rights, he argues, are the most fundamental tenets of any community that strives to succeed and flourish. In this context, the underlying discussion rests on the following claim: the most persisting problems in Iran are the outcomes of the gradual regression of the people’ mindset that persistently overlooked their heritage and value system in favor of imitating ideas that were/are neither compatible with their culture and history, nor applicable to the country’s socioeconomic conditions. The author, therefore, presumed that these predicaments are self-inflicted: they were neither caused by a specific state, nor belong to a historical period, or individual(s); they cannot be characterized by political or economic terminologies, but are firmly rooted in people inability to recognize that the most vital principle in developing and propelling a nation forward is the existence of a unified people. .
Iran --- Social life and customs. --- Middle East—Economic conditions. --- Middle East-Politics and governm. --- Middle East-History. --- Middle Eastern and North African Economics. --- Middle Eastern Politics. --- History of the Middle East. --- Middle East—Politics and government. --- Middle East—History.
Choose an application
This book aims to explore how Islamist parties mobilize debates, discourses, and environments in electoral authoritarian systems. Interrelating three theoretical schools, Electoral Authoritarianism Theory, Protest Voting Theory, and Political Process Theory, it adopts and expands on a demand-and-supply framework to approach the subject in a novel way, and adapts them to address North Africa, a region in which such theoretical scholarship has until now not been conducted. In-depth case studies focus on two Islamist parties in North Africa, Tunisia’s Ennahda and Algeria’s HMS, both of which adopted the Muslim Brotherhood model, had charismatic leaders, and were active in the political scene from 1989-2014, the period between their first electoral trial and their electoral participation after taking part in governance. The chapters proceed chronologically, providing a historical treatment of the evolution of Ennahda and the HMS since their inception and addressing their development in two and a half decades. Chuchu Zhang is an Associate Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, China. She received her PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Her research interests are in Middle Eastern politics, terrorism, and China-Middle East relations. .
Choose an application
This book employs different parametric and non-parametric panel data models which have been used in history of developed panel data efficiency measurement literature. It assesses the differences of models based on characteristics and efficiency scores measurement using a systematic sensitivity analysis of the results. On the whole twelve parametric and four nonparametric models were studied. Parametric models are classified in four groups in terms of the assumptions made on the temporal behavior of inefficiency. A common issue among all the parametric models is that inefficiency is individual producer-specific. This is consistent with the notion of measuring the efficiency of decision-making units. Non-parametric models are divided into partial and full frontier models. A main contribution of this volume is that it helps to understand differences between parametric and non-parametric models. On empirical part of the volume, technical efficiency of two agricultural strategic crops (cotton and sugar beet) in different provinces of the Iran are analyzed. Using different models, the most efficient and inefficient provinces in cotton and sugar beet production of Iran are recognized.
Microeconomics --- Economic growth --- Economics --- Agronomy --- economie --- landbouwbeleid --- micro-economie --- economische groei --- Middle East --- Iran --- North Africa --- Middle East—Economic conditions. --- Microeconomics. --- Agricultural economics. --- Economic growth. --- Middle Eastern and North African Economics. --- Agricultural Economics. --- Economic Growth.
Choose an application
At the beginning of the twenty-first century countries in the Middle East and North Africa contend with the threats and opportunities of economic globalization, the driving force of change in the contemporary world. As the authors confirm in their straightforward and, at times, irreverent analysis of the regions' response to these challenges, it is globalization which is the key to an understanding of economic reform. Through an investigation of the structures of state and civil society, including financial systems, they also demonstrate that there is a direct correlation between economic performance and democratization. In other words, the more liberal the polity, the more effective is its economy in responding to globalization. With its interesting and incisive approach to the politics and economics of the Middle East and North Africa, this will be an essential purchase for students and policy-makers and anyone trying to come to grips with economic globalization generally.
#A0511PSA --- Middle East -- Economic conditions -- 1979-. --- Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-. --- Globalization. --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Middle East --- Economic conditions --- Politics and government --- Globalization --- #SBIB:327.4H61 --- #SBIB:327.4H71 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- 331.30 --- 331.31 --- 37 --- MEA / Middle East - Midden Oosten - Moyen Orient --- Derde wereld: economische ontwikkeling --- Derde wereld en wereldsysteem, internationale relaties --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Economische toestand --- Economisch beleid --- Geografische economie. Monografieën van streken en landen --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- GLOBALIZATION -- 330.191.4 --- 21ST CENTURY -- 330.191.4 --- Middle East - Economic conditions - 1979 --- -Middle East - Politics and government - 1979 --- -Globalization. --- -Globalization
Choose an application
This book sheds the light on the Egyptian females’ participation in labor force since 1960’s up to 2030. The main objective is to study trends of females’ participation in labor force and to predict the future participation. Egypt female participation in labor force has been increased slowly during the last fifty years since 1960’s, in spite of the encouragement polices that the government has adopted to empower women, particularly economic empowerment. Egypt's population size has rapidly increased during the past decades to about 90 million inhabitants in 2016. The working-age population (15-64) represents about 64% of the total population. Females represent about 49% of the working age population. However, they represent only about 24% of labor force in Egypt. Through its five chapters, this book will discuss the history of women's economic empowerment in Egypt, provide background on the trends of the most important female characteristics during the last decades, combines descriptive analysis with working life tables to break down the progression of the role of women in the Egyptian labor force, and presents a view of what could come in the time between now and 2030 in terms of the rights of women in this particular region.
Women's rights --- Women's rights. --- Rights of women --- Women --- Human rights --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Identity politics. --- Middle East—Economic conditions. --- Women. --- Politics and Gender. --- Middle Eastern and North African Economics. --- Women's Studies. --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Politics of identity --- Political participation --- Political aspects
Choose an application
This edited volume introduces the political, social and economic intra-Kurdish dynamics in the Middle East by comparatively analyzing the main actors, their ideas, and political interests. As an ethnic group and a nation in the making, Kurds are not homogeneous and united but rather the Kurdish Middle East is home to various competing political groups, leaderships, ideologies, and interests. Although many existing studies focus on the Kurds and their relations with the nation-states that they populate, few studies analyze the Kurdish Middle East within its own debates, conflicts and interests from a comparative perspective across Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. This book analyzes the intra-Kurdish dynamics with historically-grounded, theoretically-informed, and conceptually-relevant scholarship that prioritizes comparative politics over international relations. .
Kurds --- Politics and government. --- Ethnology --- Iranians --- Middle East-Politics and governm. --- Middle East-History. --- Middle East—Economic conditions. --- Peace. --- Middle Eastern Politics. --- History of the Middle East. --- Middle Eastern and North African Economics. --- Conflict Studies. --- Coexistence, Peaceful --- Peaceful coexistence --- International relations --- Disarmament --- Peace-building --- Security, International --- War --- Middle East—Politics and government. --- Middle East—History.
Choose an application
MOHAMED A. RAMADY SAUDI ARAMCO 2030: POST IPO CHALLENGES The decision by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to launch the country’s ambitious and generational transformation program to wean the Kingdom away from oil under the Vision 2030 plan in 2016 was also an important milestone for Saudi Aramco. The Vision places an important role for the National Oil Company to play and enshrines some key objectives for the company: · Transforming Aramco from an oil company to a global industrial conglomerate, · Using the proceeds of the IPO to transform the Public Investment Fund into the world’s largest Sovereign Wealth Fund, · Involving Aramco in a wide range of industrial enterprises and partnerships with a focus on localized local content, · Aramco to become a catalyst for transparency and investor accountability The Author examines Aramco from its infancy in the 1930’s under the concession agreement, to where it is today in preparing for its new Vision 2030 expanded mandate and the planned IPO. Topics discussed include a comparative analysis of the fortunes of four partly privatized National Oil Companies – Statoil, Rosneft , Petrobras and Sinopec - and lessons learned from their experience ; Aramco’s pivotal shift towards the Asian and Far East markets and its diversification into the refining and petrochemical sector; Saudi Arabia’s energy efficiency and renewable energy program; Aramco’s current structure and its key asset, its people ; required governance and other reforms to meet different international listing requirements , with their listing criteria examined in detail . Finally the Author estimates Aramco’s IPO valuation under different oil prices and key assumptions and scenarios , as well as Saudi Arabia’s future role in OPEC and its oil policy. The Crown Prince has placed high expectations on a successful Aramco IPO as the fate of the Vision 2030 and the company is entwined. Getting it wrong is not an option for both. Mohamed Ramady is a former Visiting Associate Professor of Finance and Economics at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. He has written on OPEC and energy, the Saudi economy and GCC country risk analysis. He has also held senior positions with international financial institutions in the Arabian Gulf and Europe.
Middle East --- Economics. --- Middle Eastern and North African Economics. --- Political Economy/Economic Policy. --- Middle Eastern Politics. --- Politics and government. --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Middle East—Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Middle East-Politics and governm. --- Economic Policy. --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Middle East—Politics and government.
Listing 1 - 10 of 29 | << page >> |
Sort by
|