http://netvouz.com/ipfwgweb/tag/online?feed=rss ipfwgweb's bookmarks tagged "online" on Netvouz http://www.worldbank.org/mdf/mdf4/papers/fergany.pdf#search=%22labor%20migration%20in%20Gulf%20countries%22 By Nader Fergany, Almishkat Center for Research. Migration has become internalized as a structural feature of the political economy of many Arab countries. As a result, the loss of information on the phenomenon is unfortunate and needs to be corrected. The center of attention of the paper is migration shifts to countries of destination outside the Arab region, especially Europe, which are, with some exceptions that intensify the brain drain out of the region1, apprehensive of additional migration inflows. x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Nazila Ghanea-Hercock ipfwgweb Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:51:04 GMT http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=104231&theSitePK=40941&menuPK=228424&Projectid=P047111 The World Bank Group report x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Majid Mohammadi ipfwgweb Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:40:25 GMT http://www.un.org/esa/population/migration/turin/Symposium_Turin_files/P03_Shah.pdf [PDF] By Nasra M. Shah. The paper is a part of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting On International Migration And Development In The Arab Region. It reviews data sources on migration, focuses on immigration policies aimed to affect supply of workers, also deportation of overstayers and illegals, strengthening protective visa regimes and restrictions on visa trading, and also Policies aimed to affect the demand for indigenous workers x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Nazila Ghanea-Hercock ipfwgweb Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:46:47 GMT http://www.grbi.gov.pk/Documents/GRBIRoadMap.pdf Government of Pakistan Research Paper x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Haroon Rafique ipfwgweb Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:32:25 GMT http://www.grbi.gov.pk/Documents/BudgetaryReform.pdf By Masharraf Rasool Cyan. The author presents the results of the study of the budgeting and planning reforms in Pakistan with the focus on specific institutional processes that have changed or are being changed as a result of the reforms of the budget and planning organization and methodologies. It also recounts important capacity building initiatives connected with various reform initiatives and the potential impact of reforms from the gender budgeting perspective. Finally, it provides a risk analysis of the reform initiatives. x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Haroon Rafique ipfwgweb Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:31:23 GMT http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=104231&theSitePK=40941&menuPK=228424&Projectid=P063918 By the World Bank Group. The Project aims at developing an independent, competent, and professional judicial system in Morocco, within high ethic standards for effective dispute resolution, and, to facilitate commercial transactions, as well as resolving potential commercial disputes. The components include improvement of legislative, and regulatory framework for commercial transactions; strengthening of the judicial system's capacity; strengthening the capacity of local Registries of Commerce within the commercial courts, to provide information, and ready access to the public; provision of training to judges, and court administrative staff x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Majid Mohammadi ipfwgweb Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:39:45 GMT http://www.mediaed.org/news/articles/mediairaq By Mariellen Diemand. The author focuses on the role that American media played inIraq. In a time of war, free speech comes under fire byUSgovernment in the forms of censorship, false reporting and untruths and unbalanced news. The truth needed for a vibrant democracy has dissipated, leaving behind an antiseptic and sanitized version of the war inIraq, brought by media corporations - often referred to as "mouthpieces for theUSgovernment". x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Ibrahim Al-Marashi ipfwgweb Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:34:52 GMT http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/Media/Propaganda/Iraq.asp By Anup Shah. The paper discusses the roles of media propaganda during the US war in Iraq x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Ibrahim Al-Marashi ipfwgweb Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:34:14 GMT http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=104231&theSitePK=40941&menuPK=228424&Projectid=P057915 The World Bank Group. The project aims at implementing a pilot program of judicial training, to assess, and enhance the effectiveness of the judiciary, provide business advise, as well as develop an economic legislation. The project components include: the judicial development; the legal development; the development of a public awareness campaign, through policy and program management, will provide better understanding of the improved judicial and legal systems. x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Majid Mohammadi ipfwgweb Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:42:14 GMT