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 ...
Unlocking sustainable private sector growth in MENA
Economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa has been weak since the global financial crisis of 2007-09 and ...
Preventing developing economy debt disasters
Skyrocketing food and energy prices, together with widening sovereign bond spreads, have placed balance sheets in emerging market and developing ...
Ukraine invasion: from oil sanctions to accelerating the energy transition
The sanctions placed on Russian oil may give new impetus to the energy transition by encouraging developed economies to find ...
Labour market transitions over the life cycle in Egypt across two decades
To assess the impact of Covid-19 on Egypt’s labour markets, it is useful to understand how they functioned prior to ...