European security fears will boost Israeli arms sales

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Benefits ◽  
European Security ◽  
Military Technology ◽  
Arms Sales ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Arms Transfers ◽  
Jewish Settlement ◽  
The Government ◽  
Defence Cooperation ◽  
European Markets

Subject Israel’s defence diplomacy in Europe. Significance Israel is seeking to capitalise diplomatically and economically on growing tension and security threats in Europe by expanding arms sales and defence cooperation. In addition to reaping economic benefits, the government hopes to use deeper defence ties to protect Israel from the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and actions opposing Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank. Impacts Israeli arms exporters could come into conflict with US defence companies in European markets. Russia’s displeasure with Israeli defence sales in Eastern Europe could encourage arms transfers to Israel’s regional enemies. Demand for the most sophisticated Israeli military technology will rise more sharply.

Growth prospects, market challenges and policy measures: evolution of mobile broadband in Pakistan

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shehzad Hanif ◽  
Shao Yunfei ◽  
Muhammad Imran Hanif
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mobile Broadband ◽  
Broadband Service ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
The Government

Purpose The paper aims to explore the long-term prospects of mobile broadband adoption in a developing country. The supply-side and demand-side policy measures are recommended to counter the challenges to broadband adoption. Design/methodology/approach Methodologically, this study uses document analysis to explain secondary data including growth statistics, trade literature and previous scholarly research. Based on the growth statistics of broadband and the informed market insights, the research discusses the prevailing market threats and recommends counter measures to improve the long-term prospects of broadband propagation. Findings The growth of mobile broadband is settling down in Pakistan due to various barriers like cost, literacy, security and unavailability of local content. Collaborative efforts are required by the government, the service providers and the people to enhance the adoption of broadband service and secure economic benefits of the broadband. Practical implications The research offers useful implications for managers and policymakers in Asian and African developing countries; the policy measures discussed here may serve as guidelines for them in the design of their own policies regarding broadband supply and demand. Originality/value The study makes an effort to examine the broadband growth in a developing country on the basis of both quantitative and qualitative aspects. The research endeavors to fill the gap on the particular scholarship of research covering potential uptake of broadband services and the effects of constraining elements to broadband adoption in a developing country.

US-Russian talks offer uncertain path to de-escalation

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Security ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Core Function ◽  
The Government ◽  
Vladimir Putin

Significance The December 7 virtual summit between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin was an attempt to reduce the risk of imminent conflict. The results, including an agreement to discuss European security, appear to have had some success, but have not led to de-escalation: Moscow shows no sign of pulling back troops massed around Ukraine. Impacts The war risk is not top of the news agenda in Ukraine, and the government seems inclined to downplay it. Closer US-NATO alignment will ease European fears but complicate some decisions. After engagement further afield, NATO will revert to its core function of assuring security in Europe.

Russian LNG challenges westward pipeline gas sales

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Production Capacity ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Suez Canal ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Northern Sea Route ◽  
The Government ◽  
European Markets

Significance The government plans additional federal- and regional-level support for key projects, but expects industry players to be active in scaling up LNG production capacity and searching for new export opportunities. Impacts Greater liberalisation of LNG exports is likely despite Gazprom's attempts to exclude them from European markets. Shell's reluctance to back the expansion of Sakhalin-2 will Novatek's LNG production lead over Gazprom. The Northern Sea Route can handle only a small fraction of global trade despite Russian claims it is an alternative to the Suez Canal.

The Israeli travel and tourism industry faces COVID-19: developing guidelines for facilitating and maintaining a nuanced response and recovery to the pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Schmidt ◽  
Alex Altshuler
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
The Government

Purpose This paper aims to discuss how the tourism industry is contending with the economic and interorganizational challenges wrought by the COVID-19 outbreak and heightened by a lack of communication between the government and local businesses in the state of Israel. The researchers examine the dependency of the tourism industry on the general preparation programs that were developed and are currently being deployed by the relevant national stakeholders and question whether instead, it should use the pandemic as a catalyst for formulating its own nuanced tourism-travel-and-hospitality-oriented strategies and procedures. Design/methodology/approach Applying an ethnographic-based mix-methods research approach, this paper draws on insights from data compiled by fusing existing theoretical and emerging practical knowledge with empirical research (qualitative and quantitative) conducted among numerous relevant macro (governmental/centralized industry) and micro (hotels, travel and tourism operators and service providers) stakeholders as well as potential consumers. Findings It is essential that national and local government bodies form collaborative interorganizational relationships with local stakeholders to jointly activate case-specific hospitality and travel-specific risk mitigation management strategies. Moreover, the pandemic laid bare the tentative and fragile nature of the globalized tourism industry supply and demand chains, a condition that may be remedied via a pivot toward using national or even regional supply chains and goods and service providers. Within Israel, such changes could lead to increased economic benefits that extend beyond the tourism industry to provide certain security-related benefits. Originality/value Relating to idiosyncratic factors relevant to an Israeli cultural context, this paper uses the ethnographic field-borne familiarity of the researchers with the tourism and travel industries in Eilat and the Dead Sea to offer applicable suggestions for leveraging certain industry resources to both meet the demands of the present-day circumstances and cultivate a multifaceted organizational web of macro and micro social, economic and environmental networks so as to foster a more diversified and therefore resilient local tourism and travel economy.

Colombia peace talks offer scope for organised crime

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Peace Treaty ◽  
Western Coast ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Criminal Violence ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Government ◽  
Criminal Groups

Subject The rising threat from BACRIM. Significance Organised criminal groups are now the non-state actors most frequently responsible for internal displacement of Colombians, according to a recent UN report. There is also evidence that the so-called BACRIM (criminal bands) are seeking to fill the vacuum after an eventual demobilisation of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The BACRIM, and Los Urabenos in particular, have expanded control over rural areas and the mining sector, posing a threat as the government seeks to attract foreign investment to boost development in a post-conflict environment. Impacts Criminal violence in cities along the western coast is already causing damage to Colombia's international image. Increased insecurity perceptions risk marring the political and economic benefits the government expects from the peace process. Criminal groups such as Los Urabenos will benefit from the vacuum left by the FARC if a peace treaty is signed later this year.

Mexico tourism plan rides on success of Maya Train

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Quintana Roo ◽  
Infrastructure Investment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Government ◽  
Healthy Growth ◽  
Tourism Potential

Significance The news follows years of healthy growth in the sector and comes as the government launches a new tourism plan. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) announced the National Tourism Strategy 2019-24 in Chetumal on February 24, highlighting the government’s intention to use the sector as a vehicle for regional development, job creation, social inclusion and equality. Within this framework, the construction of a ‘Maya Train’ in the relatively poor south of the country will be the sector’s priority. Impacts The lack of a formal environmental impact assessment for the Maya Train puts the environment, and its long-term tourism potential, at risk. Business’s mistrust of AMLO, and the potential downgrading of Mexico’s sovereign ratings, threaten infrastructure investment hopes. SECTUR’s move to Quintana Roo feeds into the government’s decentralisation rhetoric but will not necessarily help boost sectoral growth. Plans to incentivise domestic travel by the poor may increase tourism numbers and quality of life but will bring few economic benefits.

China unlikely to meet Turkey's economic aspirations

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Military Technology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Defence Industry ◽  
Global Player ◽  
Defence Cooperation ◽  
Harsh Criticism

Subject Turkish-Chinese relations. Significance During a visit to Beijing on July 2, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed support for greater Turkish-Chinese economic and defence cooperation. His desire for closer ties represents a shift from Ankara’s earlier harsh criticism of Beijing’s treatment of its Uighur minority, Turkic Muslims with whom Turkey feels an affinity. Impacts Although cooperation in the defence industry may increase, China will be reluctant to share its latest military technology with Turkey. Erdogan is keen to show that Turkey can pick and choose its partners as it pleases. Purchasing the Russian S-400s and wooing China is probably part of this broader strategy to position Turkey as a global player.

Taiwan's security depends on more than military power

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arms Sales ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Defence Spending ◽  
Chinese Military ◽  
The Government ◽  
Military Activity ◽  
National Defence

Subject Taiwan's defence policies. Significance Defence minister Feng Shih-kuan announced last month that the government intends to raise defence spending to 3% of GDP, a 50% increase from 2016, to counter the growing threat from mainland China’s military. Much of that budget will be used for procurement of advanced weaponry from the United States, Taiwan's chief weapons supplier, and to boost the domestic defence industry, including an ambitious plan launched last month to build submarines locally. Impacts Chinese military activity around Taiwan, elevated since President Tsai Ing-wen took office, will probably increase further. Beijing is more likely than previously to direct its anger over arms sales at Taipei rather than Washington. Taipei will seek to expand relations with Washington beyond arms sales, pressing in particular for a free-trade agreement. Taiwan will remain militarily vulnerable no matter how much is spent on national defence.

The impact of COVID-19 on children from poor families in Ghana and the role of welfare institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-190
Author(s):  
Lorretta Domfeh Owusu ◽  
Kwabena Frimpong-Manso
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Welfare Institutions ◽  
Poor Families ◽  
The Government ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This paper is focussed on answering the following questions: How are poor families surviving in this era of COVID-19? What is life for children from poor families? What has become of their reality? To understand the realities of poor families and children during COVID-19, specifically in Ghana, this paper aims to analyse how COVID-19 has affected children from poor families in Ghana and how welfare institutions can work to provide rapid help to such families. Design/methodology/approach COVID-19 is affecting different populations in almost all parts of the world. One group that is likely to experience challenges are children because they have to depend on others for their survival. This study, therefore, provides an expert opinion on the issues that children in Ghana might face because of the global public health pandemic. Nonetheless, this research relied on secondary data from articles, journals, related studies, textbooks and relevant web pages to support the points made in the paper. Findings COVID-19 has put a lot of undue economic and social pressure on poor families. Due to these pressures, children from such families are likely to suffer a higher risk of child labour and streetism. Furthermore, they may miss out on the social and economic benefits the school system provides such as the free meals provided for public schools by the Government of Ghana under the school feeding programme. Originality/value Admittedly, there have been numerous studies since the outbreak of C0VID-19 pandemic. However, this paper is the first paper discussing into detail how COVID-19 has affected children from poor families and addresses how state welfare institutions can leverage on the use of efficient management information system to identify and support poor families during and post-COVID-19.

scholarly journals The Implementation of South Korea’s Military Technology Reform in The Perspective of Techno-nationalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Resi Qurrata Aini ◽  
Febry Triantama
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
The United States ◽  
Defense Industry ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Military Technology ◽  
Organizational Reform ◽  
The North ◽  
Revolution In Military Affairs ◽  
The Government ◽  
Defense Reform

Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) requires fundamental reforms on its 3 main pillars, namely military technology, doctrine, and organizational reform. South Korea is one of the states that has taken steps to initiate the RMA through defense reform policies. South Korea have initiated its own version of RMA by prioritizing the revolution of military technology rather than any other aspects. This article aims to explain why South Korea prioritizes its military modernization through the development of its domestic defense industry. This research applies the concept of military techno-nationalism impulse with a qualitative approach and literature review method to collect data from official documents, websites of the government, journals, and scientific reports. The results of the research indicate that South Korea's choice to prioritize the development of its domestic defense industry is not merely pushed by the urgency to decrease its dependencies toward the United States, but also by the desire to pursue for strategic power to face the North Korean threat as well as other states around the region that full of antagonism atmosphere, to obtain broader economic benefits through the spin-off effect of industrialization, and to gain international prestige as one of the largest arms exporter as well as standing equal with other regional players.

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