Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood

Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood Analyses

Morocco: The Bases for a New Development Model? (I): The National Initiative for Human Development (INDH)

The INDH puts Morocco’s social issues at the forefront of the country’s political priorities. Among its most positive features is that it has adopted a participatory approach, which involves civil society and local authorities in both planning and implementation. However, it is not clear how it fits in with a national development strategy and with the country’s general economic policy, nor how it will help transfer greater political power and resources to local governments as the key agents in the current democracy-building process.

By Iván Martín

05 Apr 2006 //

17 mins Reading time

Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood Analyses

Can Afghanistan Be Rebuilt?

An international donor conference held in London has generated substantial new commitments of aid money for Afghanistan. The support comes amid a volatile security situation in the battered country and growing disillusionment among ordinary Afghans over the slowness of reconstruction

By Soeren Kern

02 Mar 2006 //

23 mins Reading time

Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood Analyses

Libya’s Return: Between Change and Continuity

Libya has come a long way towards its international rehabilitation in the last three years. The reforms implemented so far have been limited and have focused on the economic sphere, in order to attract greater foreign direct investment, especially in the oil sector. These reforms should not be expected to come alongside significant political liberalisation

By Haizam Amirah-Fernández

06 Jan 2006 //

21 mins Reading time

Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood Analyses

Were they Pushed or Did they Jump? The Rise in Sub-Saharan Immigration

Spanish immigration is changing. In the year 2000 60% of the stock of Spanish immigrants was made up of people from other EU countries (40%) and from Magreb countries (20%). In 2005 the share of immigrants from EU and Maghreb countries was down to 35% of the total stock of immigrants (20 % EU countries and 15 % Magreb countries), and this despite the recent EU enlargement. The largest changes are due to the extraordinary upsurge of Latin American immigration, up from 20 to 40 % of the total stock of immigrants in Spain

By Rickard Sandell

03 Nov 2005 //

29 mins Reading time

Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood Analyses

Algeria: Between Internal Challenges and International Courtship

The proliferation of terrorist attacks makes Algeria a key player in the fight against international terrorism. At the national level, the draft Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation, unveiled by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and to be put to public referendum on September 29, appears to grant impunity to the authors of the internal conflict of the 1990s.

By Natalia Sancha

24 Oct 2005 //

19 mins Reading time

Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood Working Papers

Africa’s last ‘Last Chance’? Reflections on the Commission for Africa and the Millennium Project Reports

It will only have escaped the attention of died-in-the-grain recluses that Africa has recently been firmly placed on the international agenda in a way that was perhaps unthinkable a couple of years ago. Music concerts, television documentaries and, above all, political meetings have all been carried out recently in support of African ‘development’.

By Andrew Mold

19 Sep 2005 //

58 mins Reading time

Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood Analyses

EU-Turkey Membership Deal, Subject to de facto Recognition of Greek Cyprus

This report examines the historic agreement taken by European Union leaders at their 16-17 December summit in Brussels to begin accession talks with Turkey after 41 years in Europe’s ante-room. The process will begin on 3 October, 2005 provided Turkey has by then tacitly recognised Cyprus, which joined the EU in May.

By William Chislett

20 Dec 2004 //

16 mins Reading time

Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood Analyses

Arafat and Palestine: An Onerous Legacy

The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat begins a new era, say politicians, experts and analysts around the world. Most of the hundreds if not thousands of comments published in recent weeks agree that his passing could at least make it possible to reopen the window of opportunity brusquely closed so many times before (some even consider it ‘a great doorway opened wide’). Indeed, the window is open a crack, but instead of the breeze of hope that many predict and desire, the winds of war could well blow again, closing the window for the umpteenth time if the leaders of both sides and the powers involved do not act coherently

By Samuel Hadas

17 Dec 2004 //

27 mins Reading time

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