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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was established in 1991, in response to the major changes in the political and economic context in Central and Eastern European countries.1 Today it has 65 shareholders, of which 63 are countries, and the other two ar

The EIB is the European Union’s bank. It is the financing institution of the EU founded in 1958 by the Treaty of Rome and owned by the 27 EU member states. The EIB is headquartered in Luxembourg and has a network of local and regional offices in Europe and beyond.

This book entitled “The Service Sectors, Trade Policy, and the Challenges of Development in the Arab Region” (Part II) is an initiative of the Arab NGO Network for Development, within the context of its work on trade and development issues.

2011 ملخص تنفيذي | تشرين الثاني
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​من إعداد رامي خوري, شاهدة أظفر, تشارلز حرب, ناصر ياسين, موسى شتيوي, يزن دخقان, عبلة غوجاندي, دينا شحاته, بربارا ابراهيم, غريغوري غاوسي, كريستين أسعد, جاد مالكي, منيرة حب الله, مارك ليفين, وعد ابراهيم, رودا ليغ, إيفانا تشالمرز, كارين ابي صعب, ساره طياره, جو خليل, زينه صواف, كارين علاف, دايان سنغرمان, نيكولا بل, شيرين الفقي, لوكاس نيلسن, أيمن زهري, محمد يونس, أحمد يونس, ليه بايبس, تيم جاكوبي, الين قطب, سايسي فولك, زافيريس تزاناتوس, و كامل نابلسي

It contains 8 chapters: 1) an introduction to the general debate on trade and development, 2) an overview of the situation In the Arab region, 3) the engagement of Arab countries with the WTO, 4) Arab countries and the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, 5) Arab countries and free

The value of exports from Lebanon in Quarter 4 2011, was LBP 2,052 billion. This was LBP 72 billion, 3.4%, lower than exports in Q3 2011 and LBP 148 billion, 6.7%, lower than exports in the same quarter last year.

Israeli forces conducted a major combined military operation in the Gaza Strip for a period of 22 days (December 27, 2008 – January 18, 2009), where “Israeli forces used aerial bombing, tank shelling and armored bulldozers to eliminate the productive capacity of some of Gaza's

June 14, 2009 marks the second year of closure of the Gaza Strip for movement of both people and goods. The large majority of these movements are classified under the humanitarian functions with only limited quantities of exports mainly cash crops.

Parliamentary elections of 2009 and the year 2008 in review. The evenings of tuesday and Wednesday, April 7/8 marked the last day to register as a candidate for the Lebanese Parliamentary Elections scheduled on Sunday June 7, 2009.

IFI Paper | January 2009 UNIFIL II: Emerging and Evolving European  Engagement in Lebanon and the Middle EastKarim Makdisi, Timur Göksel, Hans Bastian Hauck, and Stuart Reigeluth There has been a long-standing debate on the merits and drawbacks of UNIFIL, the UN “interim” peacekeeping operation established by UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions 425 and 426 in the aftermath of Israel’s 1978 invasion of Lebanon. Following the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War, this debate intensified as UNIFIL’s original mandate was made more “robust” by UNSC Resolution 1701, which marked a new phase of UN peacekeeping...