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Policy makers are increasingly interested in strategies to promote resilience and mitigate the effects of future … protection against shocks, but their role in fostering resilience has been less studied. This paper assesses whether the … drought shocks. It analyzes mechanisms through which cash transfers contribute to resilience, such as savings facilitation …
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This paper identifies gaps in availability, access, and quality of household budget surveys in the Middle East and North Africa region used to measure monetary poverty and evaluates ways to fill these information gaps. Despite improving public access to household budget surveys, the availability...
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This study analyzes impacts on the power sector in the Middle East and North Africa region of three policies: removal of fuel subsidies, cross-border electricity trade, and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in line with commitments under the Paris Agreement. The analysis uses a power system...
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This paper argues for a transformation of finance to support the economic and social transformation of the Middle East and North Africa. The paper first documents the existing financial system in the region. The system is heavily skewed toward banking, relative to non-banking services, such as...
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