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MENA Governance News & Notes

Volume 3, Issue 3: September 2009

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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

BY ROBERT P. BESCHEL

 

This edition of Governance News & Notes focuses on the important and, in some circles, controversial issue of gender and governance.  The UNDP's Arab Human Development Report for 2009 recognized gender issues as being the third of its seven building blocks for Arab Human Security. The report notes the central importance of redressing the abuse and injustice that vulnerable women, children, and refugees across the region encounter each day by state and society, and the need for resolve to change their legal economic, social, and personal conditions for the better. Read more...  

                                                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Latouf

GOVERNANCE NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW WITH DR. HALA BSAISU LATOUF - MINISTER OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, JORDAN 

 

BY RAMI G. KHOURI

 

AMMAN: Looking back on the past seven years of on-and-off governance and administrative reform efforts in Jordan, one of the pioneer women in this field in the Arab World believes today that sustained reform requires a somewhat elusive combination of assets: bold vision and leadership at the top, along with basic A-B-C training and capacity-building at the level of line civil servants. Read more... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Women at Work

 

WOMEN AND THE WORKFORCE: WHAT THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS  

 

BY TARA VISHWANATH

 

With a population of nearly 315 million, of which two-thirds are below the age of 24, the MENA region has a demographic structure that can help accelerate economic growth.  However, with unemployment rates in the region looming large at approximately 12%, the highest of any region and where women and youth are even more disadvantaged, there is much work to be done. Read more... 

 

Gender charts

GENDER AND GOVERNANCE IN MENA - A PERSPECTIVE 

 

BY NADAREH CHAMLOU

 

The investment climate, which is often assumed to be equal for all, may in fact treat women-owned firms quite differently than male owned firms.  Rather than taking solely the views of women entrepreneurs and the difficulties they face as ‘gender based’ differences, it is more accurate to analyze the differences between male and female owned firms first, after controlling for various firm specific characteristics such as size, age, sector, and location. Read more... 

 

Women in Mena

THE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (MENA)  

 

BY LIDA BTEDDINI

 

In May 2009, only four yeares after gaining suffrage, Kuwaiti women made international headlines by securing four seats in the country's 50-member parliament for the first time in the nation's history.  Despite the expectation that most women would vote conservatively in the elections, their participation in the political process was met with resistance by Islamists and conservative tribal MPs who argue that their inclusion is anti-Islamic.   Read more... 

 

 


Previous Issues of Governance News & Notes

 

June 2009: Volume 3, Issue 2:               Print-friendly Version    (1345KB PDF)  Arabic عربي 

 

March 2009, Volume 3, Issue 1:             Print-friendly Version    (1345KB PDF)  Arabic عربي 

 

December 2008, Volume 2, Issue 5:       Print-friendly Version   (1345KB PDF)   Arabic عربي

 

October 2008, Volume 2, Issue 4:           Print-friendly Version   (1345KB PDF)   Arabic عربي

 

September 2008, Volume 2, Issue 3:      Print-friendly Version   (1345KB PDF)    Arabic عربي

 

June 2008, Volume 2, Issue 2:                Print-friendly Version    (1345KB PDF)   Arabic عربي

 

January 2008, Volume 2, Issue 1:           Print-friendly Version   (1345KB PDF)    Arabic عربي

 

November 2007, Volume 1, Issue 1:       Print-friendly Version  (1345KB. PDF)   Arabic  عربي

 

 

 

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