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Highlights: p. 63 and following focuses more specifically on the impact of the economic crisis on food insecurity. Figure 3.11 provides evidence that households are coping not...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is expected to grow modestly in 2024, returning to the low growth that prevailed in the decade before the pandemic. In addition to examining the macroeconomic outlook...

Highlights: The report identifies integrated land management and climate-smart agriculture as key recovery levers. According to the report, investing in climate-smart agriculture increases resilience to climate shocks...

Highlights on food security: In domestic currency, food inflation in the region is likely to remain elevated as a result of the continuing pressures on MENA economies’ currencies. In Egypt, year-on-year food...

This policy brief presents an update on the state of food security and the gendergap in food insecurity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during theCOVID-19 pandemic using...

Most countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are struggling to reduce poverty and vulnerability—COVID-19 and now Russia's invasion of Ukraine are making the task even...

Highlight Inflation averaged 171.2 percent in 2022, one of the highest rates globally, primarily due to the depreciation of the LBP. Higher prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages contributed...

Highlights: When faced with rising prices in commodity markets, in particular oil and food, countries in MENA put in place policies aimed at containing domestic inflation. Despite...

Hunger and food insecurity have continued to increase in the Arab region due to various factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 1 of this report will present the...

Highlights: Inflation Hurts the Poor and Vulnerable Food price inflation reached double digits for most of the middle-income and low-income MENA economies in 2022. For most MENA economies...