Under increasing budget pressure, Morocco carried out an extensive set of subsidy reforms in 2014 and is planning for …

The challenge of power sector reform in the Arab Republic of Egypt has long been dominated by extremely high subsidies …, accumulation of arrears from the sector, poorly-maintained physical capital, and cross-subsidies across customer classes. Egypt …. Egypt has been able to achieve universal access with more or less reliable power over the entire period, except when chronic …

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 …

This paper studies Morocco's growth and employment prospects in the context of a new growth model aimed at allowing the … automation of low-skilled jobs, to avoid falling into a middle-income trap. The first part reviews the growth model that Morocco … in Morocco. The paper concludes that to achieve high-income status and reduce unemployment significantly, Morocco will …

Republic of Egypt. Using a broadly applied methodology, a fiscal incidence analysis is conducted using survey and government … countries, Egypt's overall fiscal policy placed it in the median of the distribution of inequality reduction. Fiscal policies in … Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced …

relatively quickly that reform ownership is a necessary requirement for countries to support and sustain reforms. At the same … time, it realized that reform implementation critically depends on credible institutions and good governance, which are …

newspaper articles in 28 languages. The paper shows that the intensity of reform chatter increases during economic downturns … relationship to be causal. The paper also documents that reform chatter is followed by actual reforms, suggesting that democracies … benefit from a "self-correcting" mechanism stemming from changing popular attitudes toward reform …

one- and two-year lags between media coverage and reform implementation. To achieve this objective, the study put together … reform. Second, countries with greater media coverage of Doing Business indicators tend to have higher numbers of implemented …

Malnutrition is a huge burden on the Arab Republic of Egypt's economy. Undernutrition-manifested by poor linear growth … an estimated two percent of Egypt's annual gross domestic product through forgone productivity and health care costs … Egypt aims to inform the development of nutrition policy and guide nutrition investments over the coming years. It reviews …

treatment plants. This case study documents New Cairo, Egypt …