Poverty is a phenomenon affecting much of the world's population. Understanding poverty as a societal phenomenon and a condition based on "individual failure" undermines the importance of "the legal structures that create ...

The study provides an overview of the literature on disaster risk reduction, its relation with various development approaches and the livelihood framework. The study also examines the theoretical debates surrounding the ...

This thesis research project â Reforming local extrabudgetary funds in Egypt: Lessons from Chinaâ was supervised by Jennifer Bremer and Khaled Zakaria Amin, and submitted to the American University of Cairo by Domenica ...

It has been recognized that technical and tertiary skills play a key role in the economic growth of the developed world. Yet, amongst developing countries, and Arab countries in particular, little progress has been made ...