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As a region, the Mashreq has seen more than its share of deaths, economic losses, and instability for the last decade. The region has braved massive economic and social shocks that would challenge even the most advanced economies in the world. The conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic has...
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Sustainable debt is loan or bond financing that helps mitigate or address a specific environmental or social concern or achieve positive environmental or social outcomes. The term environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing, often used interchangeably with sustainable investing,...
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Female labor force participation in the Mashreq is exceptionally low, a problem likely to be exacerbated by the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This report calls for action in the following areas: stronger economic growth, effective policy action to close legal gaps, promotion of more...
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The framework for reform, recovery, and reconstruction (the 3RF) is part of a comprehensive response to the massive … efforts to put Lebanon on a path of sustainable development. The overall objective of the 3RF is to help address the urgent … set of strategic objectives and priority areas across both the recovery track and the reform and reconstruction track. The …
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The Public Finance Review (PFR) analyzes Lebanon's public finances over a long horizon, to understand the roots of the …
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Morocco stands out as a country that has seized the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis as an opportunity to launch an … structural bottlenecks that have constrained the performance of the Moroccan economy in the recent past. This reform program has … sector; (ii) the overhaul of the social protection framework to boost human capital; (iii) the restructuring of Morocco …
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The Economic Monitor examines four possible factors behind Tunisia's slow recovery. First, the drop in mobility related … to the pandemic may have been more harmful in Tunisia. However, mobility in Tunisia has dropped to a similar extent as … July. If anything, the mobility drop in Tunisia has resulted in a lower reduction in economic activity than in comparator …
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This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the Middle East and North Africa region. Macroeconomic indicators such as population, gross domestic product and...
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countries (Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon1, Morocco, Tunisia, West Bank and Gaza), offering policy and investment options to …
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