...growth of urban population is by now almost exclusively a developing country phenomenon in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East. The developing countries' share of the world's urban dwellers - 63% in 1990 - will rise to 71% in 2000...

...the largest proportion of WFP development aid. However, the Programme also has projects underway in Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa. WFP assistance is specifically targeted to projects assisting the poorest people in the poorest countries....

...enrollments and university enrollments across regions for two time periods. In Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa, women are better represented in the technical and vocational schools in 1970. By 1980-84 the gap in...

...secondary education increased in all regions except South Asia, while higher education spending increased in East Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa, but declined in Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Central Asia, and South Asia (see World Bank, 1995c,...

...their subordination, must therefore be explored. Integrating the histories of women in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa in part poses the same challenge as that of European and US women's history: the expansion and transiormation...

...the past) or in the "modern" way (coming into use relatively recently). However, for Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa, often the term "traditional" describes everything in the long eras before European intervention, and...

...their subordination, must therefore be explored. Integrating the histories of women in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa in part poses the same challenge as that of European and US women's history: the expansion and transformation...

...lacunae and generating hypotheses as on synthesis. The historical literature on women in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa has greatly increased in the years since these essays were first published, and that has led to their...

...goods and services for SSA is higher than the respective ratios for other regions, such as South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa. Such high debt burdens can have a detrimental effect on economic growth both by acting as a disincentive...

...to have greater scope for promoting gender equality in education in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa. The role of improved rights appears to be particularly important in the Middle East and North Africa."...