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for the Africa/North Africa/Algeria
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| The Economic Crisis and the Mediterranean: Mixed Effects, Longer-Term Questions |
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This brief explores the impact of the global pressures on key countries in North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. The analysis suggests that most countries in the region are weathering the financ...
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| Qaeda Branch Steps Up Raids in North Africa |
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This article discusses growing security concerns in North Africa as Al Qaeda spreads its influence in the region By By Eric Schmitt and Souad Mekhennet. (International Herald Tribune, 7/9/2009)
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| Changing Focus in Pakistan |
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The local participatory approach to development is an alternative to the terribly wasteful and even harmful top-down approach to international aid used previously in Pakistan. By Yossef Ben-Meir. (Asi...
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| Microinsurance Innovation Facility calls for new proposals |
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In the field of Microfinance, the new product, Microinsurance attract the attention from development practitioner. ILO supports this movement to protect the working poor. (ILO, 02/17/2009)
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| Microfinance and the real economy: impacts and outcomes of the global economic crisis |
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The current economic and social crisis provides an opportunity to re-think values and business models in finance. ILO Online spoke with Bernd Balkenhol, chief of the ILO’s Social Finance Programme. (I...
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| Number Of Unemployed Women To Soar |
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Number of unemployed women to soar amid Economic Crisis, warns UN agency. (Scoop, 03/07/2009)
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| Islamic Microfinance: An Emerging Market Niche |
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Islamic microfinance has the potential to expand access to finance to unprecedented levels throughout the Muslim world. At the same time, it has challenges. (CGAP, Aug, 2008)
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| A Real Network of Terror? |
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Claims by Al-Qaeda that they have a functioning and effective terrorist network in the Maghreb region of North Africa and examined. Although a number of recent terror attacks seem to support the claim...
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| Algeria's Army, Algeria's Agony |
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The key player in Algeria's crisis is not the Islamist rebels of the FIS but the army, the real power in a terrorized land. The army must get out of politics and let Algeria's parties, including the F...
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| Algeria's Long Night |
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One of the world's most underreported conflicts rages in Algeria, where 60,000 have died in six years of civil war. By Milton Viorst(Foreign Affairs, 11/1/1997)
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