The countries of the Middle East and North Africa face booming populations and demographic changes that will have huge consequences in the socio-economic and political spheres. Human Capital offers a guide to the many and varied issues that policy-makers will face in addressing this challenge. The book, organized country by country or sub-region and supported by new statistical data and fresh analysis, covers issues of demography and development in the Middle East, the capital value of rising populations, the workings of the labor market, and the impact of migration and urbanization on the...
The countries of the Middle East and North Africa face booming populations and demographic changes that will have huge consequences in the socio-econo...
Eurasia is emerging as a region of economic growth and opportunity, cultural change and tension, of isolation and invitation. Among the issues driving this international resurgence are ethnic and territorial conflict, identity politics, lucrative trade and communications deals, energy abundance, environmental change and a resurgent Russia. This complex landscape of imposed and unresolved borders, is a space of competing narratives, with scenarios for the region’s future ranging from a unified economic space extending from the Black Sea to the Bering Strait, to a space where indigenous...
Eurasia is emerging as a region of economic growth and opportunity, cultural change and tension, of isolation and invitation. Among the issues driving...