Region
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Soros says countries that fail to implement the necessary reforms after the introduction of Eurobonds would become permanent pockets of poverty and dependency, much like Italy’s Mezzogiorno
region
today.
In the East, a large number of Chinese troops have entered Pakistani-held territory high in the mountain fastness of the Kashmir Karakorams, in the picturesque Gilgit-Baltistan region, not far from the glacial battlefield of Siachen, where India and Pakistan confront each other.
This is over and above the many thousands in the Hunza region, who in January lost everything on account of a cloudburst that wiped out several villages and created a highly unstable artificial lake.
But this is also Indian territory, wherein lies the rub, for the
region
is now victim to a creeping China acquisitiveness, with Pakistan acquiescing as a willing accomplice.
Despite India’s historically established territorial claims to the region, China terms the area “disputed,” a description that it has now begun to extend to the whole of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Today, popular rebellion and political change have spread throughout the
region.
Likewise, the EU’s involvement in today’s problems in the Mediterranean
region
would be much easier in concert with Turkey.
In the project RethinkHIV, the Copenhagen Consensus Center and the Rush Foundation asked 30 of the world’s top HIV economists, supported by epidemiologists, demographers, and medical professionals, to analyze the most promising responses to the epidemic in the world’s worst-hit region, sub-Saharan Africa.
Research by Jere Behrman and Hans-Peter Kohler of the University of Pennsylvania makes clear that the real focus needs to be on working out the best ways to broaden adult circumcision efforts across the region, and to convince men that getting circumcised is a good idea.
But it isn’t as simple as that, because a continuation of the conflict (which is what “forgetting about it” would boil down to) would not only prolong what is a tragedy for both Palestinians and Israelis, but would also be too dangerous for the
region.
China no longer believes that local leaders can competently govern the Hong Kong “special administrative region,” no matter how sympathetic they are to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The Asia-Pacific
region
has achieved tremendous growth in the span of a single generation.
I believe that following through on the 2007 agreement would advance the cause of peace and stability in the entire
region.
And Premier Li Keqiang’s visit last May followed a deep PLA incursion into India’s Ladakh region, seemingly intended to convey China’s anger over India’s belated efforts to fortify its border defenses.
As agreed in the pact, India withdrew its “military escorts” from Tibet, and conceded to the Chinese government, at a “reasonable” price, the postal, telegraph, and public telephone services operated by the Indian government in the “Tibet
region
of China.”
At the same time, Jordan is Israel’s closest partner in the
region.
But, as the
region
increasingly becomes trapped in a race to the abyss, the rare combination of courage, modesty, and lucidity that he embodied is badly needed.
The Iran-Iraq border – like many borders in the
region
– is long and porous.
But, for many people in the region, the Iraq war involved something else: the transfer of power in what had been a Sunni-led country to the Shia majority.
Many countries in the
region
have refused to open embassies in Baghdad, often citing “security concerns” as the reason.
One-third of children under five in the
region
are stunted (too short for their age), a condition with irreversible effects on cognitive development.
Generally speaking, most people in the
region
want to have their cake and eat it too--market reform and an expensive social safety net.
The army of the old and pensioned is growing everywhere in the
region.
In the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia -- indeed, almost everywhere in the
region
-- government revenues exceed that boundary.
Of course, the election results through the
region
demonstrate just how hard a task these needed reforms will prove to be.
With no pan-Asian security architecture expected to emerge in the near future, the West’s departure from the
region
is generating a security vacuum.
As a result, the
region
has entered a period of conflict, social degradation, rising nationalism, and growing religious fanaticism.
Regardless of whether we are rich, poor, or in between, we share an overwhelming interest in the MDGs’ success, so that every
region
trapped in extreme poverty can break free, grow, and prosper.
Iraq’s militias will not go quietly, yet their dissolution is essential for long-term stability, itself a sine qua non for stability in the
region.
The AKP’s support came from both the winners and losers of globalization, from conservative middle Anatolia and cosmopolitan Istanbul, from the nationalist Black Sea
region
and the predominantly Kurdish Southeast.
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