The Report: Bahrain 2012
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Publisher : Oxford Business Group
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
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ISBN : 190706558X
Author :
Publisher : Oxford Business Group
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 190706558X
Author : Freedom House
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9781442217942
A survey of the state of human freedom around the world investigates such crucial indicators as the status of civil and political liberties and provides individual country reports.
Author : Ala'a Shehabi
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1783604360
Amid the extensive coverage of the Arab uprisings, the Gulf state of Bahrain has been almost forgotten. Fusing historical and contemporary analysis, Bahrain’s Uprising seeks to fill this gap, examining the ongoing protests and state repression that continues today. Drawing on powerful testimonies, interviews, and conversations from those involved, this broad collection of writings by scholars and activists provides a rarely heard voice of the lived experience of Bahrainis, describing the way in which a sophisticated society, defined by a historical struggle, continues to hamper the efforts of the ruling elite to rebrand itself as a liberal monarchy.
Author : International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 46,39 MB
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1616352477
The April 2012 Global Financial Stability Report assesses changes in risks to financial stability over the past six months, focusing on sovereign vulnerabilities, risks stemming from private sector deleveraging, and assessing the continued resilience of emerging markets. The report probes the implications of recent reforms in the financial system for market perception of safe assets, and investigates the growing public and private costs of increased longevity risk from aging populations.
Author : U. S. Department of State
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2013-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781482357622
The United States' commitment to fighting modern slavery did not simply materialize 12 years ago with the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (INCLUDED) or the adoption the same year of the U.N. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol). This country's tragic history is not forgotten, nor are the bloodshed and lives lost in the fight to end state-sanctioned slavery.This series includes the following items defined...What Is Trafficking In Persons?, The Face of Modern Slavery Sex Trafficking, Child Sex Trafficking, Forced Labor, Bonded Labor Or Debt Bondage, Involuntary Domestic Servitude, Forced Child Labor, and Unlawful Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers.Methodology This Report was prepared using information from U.S. embassies, government officials, nongovernmental and international organizations, published reports, news articles, academic studies, research trips to every region of the world, and information submitted to [email protected]. This email address provides a means by which organizations and individuals can share information with the Department of State on government progress in addressing trafficking.Also included besides the Country Report is the Tier Placement Countries are placed onto one of four tiers, as mandated by the TVPA. This placement is based more on the extent of government action to combat trafficking than on the size of the problem. The analyses are based on the extent of governments' efforts to reach compliance with the TVPA's minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, which are consistent with the Palermo Protocol.
Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 2021-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781646794973
"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464814414
Seventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.
Author : Emile Nakhleh
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1461739489
The book is a study of political development in Bahrain during the first five years after its independence in 1971. It is based on field research done by the author as the first senior Fulbright scholar in that country. The book was banned in Bahrain for 30 years but was allowed to be published in Arabic in that country in 2006. The study focuses on the tribal structure of Bahraini society and the rule of a minority Sunni government by al-Khalifa family over a largely disenfranchised Shia majority. To examine the making of the new state, the book analyzes the nature and characteristics of the Bahraini tribal society, the educational system of modern Bahrain, the nature of the political system, and popular demands for participation in decision making. The book also examines the making of the new constitution, the first ever national election to both the Constitutional Assembly and the National Assembly, and the electoral campaigns and candidates. The book also discusses the restrictions on freedoms of speech and assembly, the denial of women the right to vote, the banning of political parties and the role of clubs as surrogate political gathering places, the exclusion of the Shia majority from the economic and political centers of power, and the absence of government accountability and transparency. The February 20ll popular uprising in Bahrain underscores some of the key challenges discussed in the book, especially the autocratic nature of the regime and the urgency of political reform for domestic stability.
Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1475511310
The IMF's 2012 Annual Report chronicles the response of the Fund's Executive Board and staff to the global financial crisis and other events during financial year 2012, which covers the period from May 1, 2011, through April 30, 2012. The print version of the Report is available in eight languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish), along with a CD-ROM (available in English only) that includes the Report text and ancillary materials, including the Fund's Financial Statements for FY2012.
Author : Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464812683
In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world. The initial survey round was followed by a second one in 2014 and by a third in 2017. Compiled using nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults age 15 and above in over 140 economies, The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution includes updated indicators on access to and use of formal and informal financial services. It has additional data on the use of financial technology (or fintech), including the use of mobile phones and the Internet to conduct financial transactions. The data reveal opportunities to expand access to financial services among people who do not have an account—the unbanked—as well as to promote greater use of digital financial services among those who do have an account. The Global Findex database has become a mainstay of global efforts to promote financial inclusion. In addition to being widely cited by scholars and development practitioners, Global Findex data are used to track progress toward the World Bank goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The database, the full text of the report, and the underlying country-level data for all figures—along with the questionnaire, the survey methodology, and other relevant materials—are available at www.worldbank.org/globalfindex.