More: MENA
COVID-19 Stress Tests MENA’s Ill-prepared Health Systems
Long-term socio-economic trends and underfunded public health systems left the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region ill-prepared to respond to the pandemic, contributing...
MENA Has a Food Security Problem, But There Are Ways to Address It
Food insecurity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a growing challenge. Even before COVID-19, UN agencies estimated that over 55 million...
MENA Unbound: Ten Years after the Arab Spring, Avoiding Another Lost Decade
Ten years ago, to the day, the Tunisian people revolted against their president. They denounced his regime, his policies, and his corrupt practices and...
Middle East futures: Decade(s) of defiance and dissent
If the 2010s were a decade of defiance and dissent, the 2020s promise to make mass anti-government protests a fixture of the greater Middle...
Peace on the Moroccan (Western) Sahara requires the consensus of all parties involved, particularly Algeria
Recently Algeria is waging a mass and fierce media war against the Kingdom of Morocco, and it is a neighbor state that was unharmed...
MENA: Trade and Regional Integration are Critical to Economic Recovery in the Post-Covid Era
Trade and integration — within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and with the rest of the world — will be critical...
MENA: Global Action is Urgently Needed to Reverse Damaging Jumps in Extreme Poverty
For the second time, the rate of extreme poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region jumped again, nearly doubling between 2015...
It’s Not Enough to Wait for Conflict to End; We Must Tackle Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Head On
Every day across the Middle
East and North Africa, the World Bank is focused on one overarching goal: to
end poverty, in all of its forms,...
Helping MENA Transition Out of Fragility
The World Bank Group released
a new strategy for assisting people and economies in countries affected by
Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV). The strategy updates Bank...
Countries Commit to Tackling “Learning Poverty” and Accelerating Learning in MENA
Recognizing the very low learning outcomes, and the need to change the
way education is delivered as critical to the future development of the Middle
East...