Employment in MENA during the pandemic: persistent inequality
While employment rates in countries in the Middle East and North Africa have largely recovered since the initial shock of ...
Women’s employment and care work in MENA during the pandemic
Across the world, Covid-19 and associated policy measures that closed schools and nurseries led to increased care work for married ...
Weak pass-through of growth to household incomes in Arab countries
Arab countries are unlikely to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030, even under the best-case scenario of a full ‘pass-through’ of ...
How foreign powers could break Lebanon’s gridlock
It is well known that factionalism and corruption have long stood in the way of the kinds of structural reforms ...
Challenges of digitalisation in MENA and sub-Saharan Africa
For Africa and the Middle East, new digital technologies present an opportunity to raise productivity by speeding up structural transformation ...
Economic interdependence and conflict management in MENA
Do preferential trade agreements and regional integration help to promote peace between neighbouring countries? This column looks at some of ...
Reality check: forecasting MENA growth in times of uncertainty
- Roberta V. Gatti,
- Daniel Lederman,
- Asif Islam,
- Christina A. Wood,
- Rachel Yuting Fan,
- Rana Lotfi,
- Mennatallah Emam Mousa and
- Ha Nguyen
Over the past decade, growth forecasts for the countries of the Middle East and North Africa have often been overly ...
Air pollution and internal migration in Iran
The quality of the local environment can have a significant impact on residents’ decisions about whether to migrate to another ...