Better roads improve regional economies: evidence from Turkey
Paving dirt roads and building highway networks have unsurprisingly been shown to produce substantial economic gains, but what is the ...
Oil price shocks, protest and the shadow economy
Can negative oil price shocks raise the risk of internal conflict in oil-dependent economies? Not really: as this column reports, ...
Accelerating Africa’s economic transformation
The Covid-19 pandemic is likely to exacerbate the move away from globalisation that began early this century and promote regionalisation ...
Prospects for Sudan’s peace agreement in the shadow of the coup
The Juba Agreement for Power Sharing in Sudan (JAPS) signed in late 2020 raised hopes of ending almost two decades ...
Getting the private sector to generate decent jobs in Arab countries
Formal private sector firms in Arab countries suffer from four overlapping labour market challenges: job creation, inequality, productivity and technology. ...
MENA public healthcare systems: building resilience for future emergencies
- Roberta V. Gatti,
- Daniel Lederman,
- Rachel Yuting Fan,
- Arian Hatefi,
- Ha Nguyen,
- Anja Sautmann,
- Joseph Martin Sax and
- Christina A. Wood
The pandemic caught most countries in the Middle East and North Africa with underfinanced, imbalanced and ill-prepared healthcare systems. This ...
Climate finance: poorer countries need it as a matter of urgency
Climate change will shrink the economies of rich, poor, hot and cold countries alike, and will make it more difficult ...
Energy subsidies: easy pickings for climate policy or political bombshell?
In the Middle East and North Africa, energy consumption is heavily subsidised, which has harmful environmental consequences. But reform of ...