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¡°The MENA region grew at 1.9 percent in 2023 and is forecasted to grow at 2.7 percent in 2024 amidst a global economy that is in its third consecutive year of deceleration. The tragedy of the conflict in the Middle East ...

Covid-19. The Russian invasion of Ukraine. Commodity price volatility. The rise of global inflation and interest rates. Currency depreciations among indebted middle-income economies. And now, natural disasters. As a ...

High inflation and rising food prices pose a challenge to economies across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), where growth is expected to slow in the coming year to 3% after growing 5.8% in 2022. Oil exporters, ...

A New State of Mind: Greater Transparency and Accountability in the Middle East ...

The MENA region is facing important vulnerabilities, which the current crises¡ªfirst the pandemic, then the war in Ukraine¡ªhave exacerbated. Prices of food and energy are higher, hurting the most vulnerable, and rising ...

Reality Check: Forecasting Growth in the Middle East and North Africa in Times ...

This edition of the аIJʿª½± MENA Economic Update estimates that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region¡¯s economies will grow by 5.2% in 2022, the fastest rate since 2016. However, uncertainty reigns with the ...

Overconfident: How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and ...

This edition of the аIJʿª½± MENA Economic Update estimates that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region¡¯s economies, which contracted by 3.8% in 2020, will grow by 2.8% in 2021. Overall, the output cost of ...

Despite massive infrastructure investments, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continue to face unprecedented water scarcity due to climate change, population growth, and socioeconomic ...

For thousands of years, migration has been a source of social and economic well-being for people living on different shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Whether through higher earnings for migrants, access to labor for ...

Economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has been weak since the global financial crisis of 2007-09 and the Arab Spring of the early 2010s. Achieving higher and sustainable growth is particularly ...

A decade since the spark of the Arab Spring, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continues to suffer from limited creation of more and better jobs. Youth face idleness and unemployment. For those who find jobs,...

The argument that digitalization fosters economic activity has been strengthened by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Because digital technologies are general-purpose technologies that are usable across a wide variety of ...