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They can offer security guarantees to responsible countries in the
region.
Russia will not be able to develop the
region
on its own.
Indeed, within the context of the Arab Peace Plan, announced in Beirut in 2002, the Arab states take it upon themselves to ensure the security of “all states in the region” – code words for dealing with the threats from Hezbollah and Hamas – since the
region
includes Israel.
Ultimately, vibrant growing economies in the
region
will benefit China’s economy and its stature.
The service became an urgent necessity with the “Arab Spring” roiling the southern Mediterranean
region.
The bad news is that even with the higher growth rates, per capita income is just rising at one or two percent per year on average in much of the
region
(rather than falling, as in the 1980s), compared with the much higher rates that could be achieved.
But with more people of MENA origin subjected to so-called extreme vetting, fewer people from the
region
will be moving to the US.
But critics of the government, including several respected public intellectuals, have pointed out similarities between Boko Haram and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, an armed militant group in the country’s oil-rich region, which has been killing soldiers and kidnapping foreign oil workers since 2006.
This disturbing development – a byproduct of the failed “global war on drugs” – threatens to reverse recent economic and social gains in our
region.
The scale of the cocaine trade alone in West Africa dwarfs the combined government budgets of several countries in the
region.
But it is not only the trade in illegal drugs that is destabilizing countries in the region; narcotics consumption is becoming a major problem as well.
The West Africa Commission on Drugs, which I convened and former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo chairs, points out in a new report that cocaine, heroin, and locally produced methamphetamines have become increasingly available across the
region.
Yet the
region
is simply not ready or equipped to deal with the spread of drug use and dependency.
But such is the importance of this challenge – and so dire are the consequences of failure to overcome it – that the Commission strongly recommends the adoption of a drug-treatment policy with minimum standards across the
region.
Tackling the impact of drugs through informed, humane, and coordinated policy will require leadership and a concerted effort by countries across the
region.
His criticism of the Posted Workers Directive – which allows workers from the
region
to undercut Western European wages and avoid payroll taxes – has made him as much a villain as Merkel in some countries.
Up to now, the
region
(excluding Israel and Turkey) had more or less missed out on the epochal process of worldwide modernization.
One thing, however, is already clear: the era when this vast
region
slept while others modernized has ended.
Virtually no country in the
region
will escape it, though when and where the next eruption will occur remains uncertain.
Israel, too, would be well advised to prepare for epochal change in the
region
and try to reach a peace settlement with the Palestinians and Syria as quickly as possible.
Should this awakening fail, the result will be a radicalization throughout the
region.
Quite simply, the vast majority of Israelis agree with Netanyahu in a fundamental respect: A small country surrounded by enemies, in a chaotic
region
of failing states and vicious non-state actors like Hamas, Hezbollah, and now the Islamic State, cannot afford to run elections on socioeconomic platforms as if it were a peaceful West European duchy.
We must use it to invest in innovation and human capital, which will further boost growth in the
region.
In order to create a
region
of trust and order, I would like to appeal to Asia and the world.
Only then can we achieve lasting growth and prosperity in Asia, enabling all of us in the
region
to realize our great potential.
McGruder, who works closely with African astronomers, agrees that a space program for the
region
is critical to raising the profile of careers in science and engineering in a part of the world where the most educated people still go into finance or management.
“Good forces also can join with the African scientist to create many small-scale projects in the
region
that are realistic to operate.”
Lebanon’s growth rate, which has averaged 3.7% over the last 10 years, has been, according to the Fund, “lower and more volatile than (averaged) in the MENA [Middle East-North Africa] region.”
At a time when, despite economic growth in Asia, there is much social and income inequality, as well uncertainty about the durability of peace in the region, the desire to find fresh solutions to problems has given a powerful boost to women leaders.
Of course, no one in the
region
is calling for war.
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