scholarly journals For a Decade of Hope Not Austerity in the Middle East and North Africa: Towards a fair and inclusive recovery to fight inequality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabil Abdo ◽  
Shaddin Almasri
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Women Refugees ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Decent Work

Even before the coronavirus crisis struck, people in the Middle East and North Africa were protesting against the injustice and inequality wrought by a decade of austerity. The pandemic and the lockdown measures taken by governments have paralysed economies and threaten to tip millions of people into poverty, with women, refugees, migrant workers and those working in the informal economy among the worst affected. A huge increase in inequality is very likely. More austerity following this crisis will mean more uprisings, more inequality, and more conflict. This paper argues that if another decade of pain is to be averted, governments need to take immediate action to reduce inequality through providing public services to protect ordinary people by taxing the richest and guaranteeing decent work.

scholarly journals Impact of Workers' Remittances from the Middle East on Pakistan's Economy: Some Selected Issues

1986 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 757-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashid Amjad
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Return Migration ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Balance Of Payments ◽  
Domestic Economy ◽  
Contract Workers ◽  
Slowing Down

Over the last decade, the phenomenon of overseas migration from Pakistan to the countries of the Middle East and North Africa has had a far reaching impact on the domestic economy. Indeed, no factor has more dramatically affected the domestic employment situation and the balance-of-payments position as the outflow of contract workers and inflow of workers' remittances from those countries. According to the Sixth Plan, as much as one-third of the increase in the labour force during the years 1978-83, i.e. the Fifth Plan period, was absorbed by migration to the Middle East [14, p. 499]. At its peak in 1982-83, official flow of remittances from the Middle-East was equivalent to 70 percent of the country's total exports of goods and non-factor services (Table 1). More recently, the slowing down in economic activity in the major labour-receiving countries together with increased competition from other labour-exporting countries has led to a decline in the outflow of migrant workers, and, with the quickening pace of return migration, there is a decline in the stock of Pakistani workers in these countries

Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Hailey Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Information And Communication

A plethora of herding communities – the Bedouin of the Middle East and North Africa, the Maasai of East Africa, the Mongolians of Central Asia, and the Sámi of Northern Europe – are using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to form new methods of communicating, utilizing public services, and engaging in protest. This chapter discusses the field and archival research conducted for this text, introduces each of the chapters, and provides a detailed analysis of the terms (such as “herder” and “pastoral nomad”) used in the text.

Press Propaganda and Subaltern Agents of Pan-Islamic Networks in the Muslim Mediterranean World prior to World War I

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odile Moreau
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
World War I ◽  
North Africa ◽  
World War ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
The Press ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores movement and circulation across the Mediterranean and seeks to contribute to a history of proto-nationalism in the Maghrib and the Middle East at a particular moment prior to World War I. The discussion is particularly concerned with the interface of two Mediterranean spaces: the Middle East (Egypt, Ottoman Empire) and North Africa (Morocco), where the latter is viewed as a case study where resistance movements sought external allies as a way of compensating for their internal weakness. Applying methods developed by Subaltern Studies, and linking macro-historical approaches, namely of a translocal movement in the Muslim Mediterranean, it explores how the Egypt-based society, al-Ittihad al-Maghribi, through its agent, Aref Taher, used the press as an instrument for political propaganda, promoting its Pan-Islamic programme and its goal of uniting North Africa.

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