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By: Athar Osama 3 October 2007 Source: SciDev.Net Muslim countries need good quality institutions to motivate researchers, argues Athar Osama. Describing scientific productivity in the 57 countries of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) as abysmal is perhaps an understatement. More than 1.5 billion Muslims living across the Islamic world — about a quarter [...]

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By: Munir Nayfeh 3 October 2007 Source: SciDev.Net Muslim countries should harness their huge diaspora and support collaboration between their expatriate and local scientists, says Munir Nayfeh. In the last 50 years, huge numbers of intellectuals have migrated from the Muslim world to industrialised countries. Studies estimate the number is almost 500,000 from the Arab [...]

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By: Athar Osama Over the last several years of the current government, the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) has funded thousands of scholarships and fellowships for Pakistanis to do PhD and Post-Doctoral work both at home and abroad. Almost simultaneously, it has also instituted an ambitious Foreign Faculty Hiring Program (FFHP) to attract expatriate Pakistanis [...]

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