As Arab countries continue to experience change, this research project will provide support for knowledge building in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Women's economic empowerment can improve if globalization and urbanization lead to greater opportunities for employment.
This project aims to develop policy guidelines and training material on how to promote women's well-being and economic growth. The project team will review the literature on how women's economic empowerment and economic growth interact.
This project provides support for the Knowledge Access in Rural Interconnected Areas Network (KariaNet). Phases I and II ran from 2004 to 2013.
Guatemala experiences significant food security problems and has one of the highest levels of chronic infant under-nutrition in the Western hemisphere.
Over the past few decades, different types of contract arrangements between farmers and food processors have become popular. This project will explore the effects of contract agriculture on small- and medium-sized farmers in Algeria.
The Economic Research Forum (ERF) is a Cairo-based regional economics research network with 269 affiliate researchers. It promotes economic research on inclusive sustainable development in the Middle East and North Africa.
This project will explore the experiences of emerging and developing countries in order to identify how the concept of international development has evolved and where it they may be heading.
In Central America, nearly 24,000 community-based organizations supply drinking water to rural and peri-urban residents.
Historically, scholars and researchers from the Muslim world were leaders in the area of medicine, astronomy and mathematics.