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Morocco’s Experience With Poverty Reduction: Lessons for the Arab World
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Lahcen Achy
December 2010
Over the past decade, Morocco’s poverty rate has decreased by more than 40 percent, with less than 9 percent of Moroccans living under the poverty line, as opposed to 16.2 percent ten years ago. Morocco has thus managed to reach its Millennium Development Goals with regard to poverty set for 2015, exceeding both expectations and perfor...
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Thursday, 30 Jun, 2011
On 31 July 2009, three American hikers were detained by Iranian security forces in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were then taken to Iran where they were imprisoned in the infamous Evin Prison—especially notorious for its political prisoner wing. Fourteen months later, on 14 September 2010, Sarah Shourd was released on bail after spending the majority of her incarceration in solitary confinement, only having been permitted brief meetings with h...
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Thursday, 30 Jun, 2011
Perhaps one of the few notorious statements with which the world associates former President George Bush is his "you are either with us, or against us." But at least under the ...
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Wednesday, 29 Jun, 2011
Two days after Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak resigned on 11 February, the country's Higher Council of the Armed Forces announced the suspension of the constitution and the di...
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Tuesday, 28 Jun, 2011
A bloody three-month-old stalemate is widening in Syria, where neither the opposition nor the regime has prevailed. Yet a sectarian conflict following along the lines of its ne...
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Monday, 27 Jun, 2011
For the second time in the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s nine-year existence, the Pre-Trial Chamber issued an arrest warrant for a sitting head of state. Muammar Qadha...
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Thursday, 23 Jun, 2011
The Future of Power
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Public Affairs
$16.00
A recent survey of American political scientists ranked Joseph Nye as the most influential scholar on A...
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Wednesday, 22 Jun, 2011
The Washington Post was the first to call on Obama to come to the rescue of Syrian civilians. While the Post did not suggest that America or the West should take military actio...
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Tuesday, 21 Jun, 2011
As civil war continues in Libya, calls for more military aid intensify from the anti-Qadhafi National Transitional Council. Leading the rebel council is Mustafa Abdul Jalil, a we...
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Monday, 20 Jun, 2011
Henry Kissinger has been speaking with Foreign Policy’s Blake Hounshell about the astonishing spate of uprisings in the Middle East and the Arab World. The veteran diplomat...
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