Region
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The question for the Saudi royals now is this: Will the US merely be indifferent to their deepest fears, or will American policy in the
region
actually aggravate these fears?
Iran, a US rival in the
region
ever since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, may be in the early stages of normalizing its relations with America.
Officials in that
region
warned the government on December 16 of a surge in bird deaths, but it took 12 days for an investigation to begin.
Whether these violations involve shutting down TV stations, imprisoning and exiling opponents, arming guerrillas in neighboring countries, provoking an arms race in the region, or flirting with Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, they all can be proved and denounced.
Moreover, in the same region, more than 60% of girls are married well before the legal age, making pregnancies among anemic and malnourished teenagers a common occurrence.
As in much of Central Asia, including Afghanistan, national boundaries, enclaves, and exclaves separate various groups that, historically, intermingled within a single
region.
Of course, the OSCE had very few resources in the
region
to begin with, but some members, notably Russia, have been unwilling to give the OSCE a larger role.
Even incumbent governments in the
region
are altering their course.
The hope for many in the
region
is that political change can catalyze faster growth, by revamping existing policies and pursuing more effective anti-corruption campaigns.
France has no interest in Mali other than the protection of its citizens and the stability of the Sahel
region.
But it is becoming increasingly difficult for factories in the
region
to remain in business under conditions of weak global demand and strong local currencies.
But the easy coexistence of rising corruption and growing inequality can be seen throughout the
region.
While this year’s Asian Development Outlook 2012, published by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), recognizes “swelling income disparities” in the region, there is almost no mention of persistent corruption, particularly in Southeast Asia.
Of course, corruption is not unique to the region; but six of the ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ranked in the bottom half of Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions index.
In a
region
where official salaries tend to be very low, government employees at all levels have been found to leverage positions of authority for personal gain.
Otherwise, the distribution of income, wealth, and opportunities in the
region
will continue to worsen, with social and political repercussions that could be difficult to contain.
Asia has suffered more casualties from the rise of international terrorism than any other
region.
As part of an FAO project in Burkina Faso, the EU’s Food Facility has helped to provide high-quality seeds to 100,000 vulnerable farmers, benefiting roughly 700,000 people amid the growing food crisis in the Sahel
region.
Considering the apparent progress made by democracy in the
region
since the 1990’s, this assessment may seem a little harsh.
For better or for worse, democracy in the
region
has been accompanied by policies of economic liberalisation and efforts to attract foreign investment, culminating in the signing of the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the US in 2005.
Beyond that objective, France seeks to protect its many nationals in the region; maintain stability in the Sahel, where states are very weak; and prevent Mali’s transformation into a base of Islamist terrorism directed at Europe.
It is the only world
region
where military expenditures are decreasing.
Should Musharraf’s government backslide even more on its commitments to restore parliamentary democracy, Pakistan’s crisis would not only be exacerbated, but it might begin to infect the wider
region.
That choice matters as an example across Asia, because Pakistan has long been the traditional sanctuary of Al Qaeda and its Taliban cohorts, who hide in the inhospitable Pakistani-Afghani border
region.
Indeed, given extremist violence in Sri Lanka (Tamil Tigers), West Bengal (Naxalites), Bangladesh (Islamic fundamentalists), Southern Thailand (Islamic separatists), Java (Jemaah Islamiyah), and Basilan (Abu Sayyaf), the possibility that Al Qaeda and its satellites are plotting attacks elsewhere, especially against soft targets, poses a real danger to the
region.
And yet the
region
suffers from a dearth of infrastructure co-investment projects, weak collaboration in trade promotion, and slow-moving cooperation in financial and tax arrangements.
In the wake of Argentina's full-scale collapse and the slowing of economic growth across the region, debates about economic policy have intensified.
In contrast to this simplistic vision, a growing group of academics from the
region'
s universities and businessmen such as Carlos Slim in Mexico, have proposed the need to reform economic reform.
As an export-led region, Asia remains heavily dependent on end-market demand from consumers in the developed world.
Little wonder that every economy in the
region
either fell into recession or experienced sharp slowdowns when global trade plunged in late 2008.
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