This Syria Economic Monitor leverages innovative alternative and remote-based data sources to analyze recent economic developments in a nation still grappling with the most deadly and one of the most...
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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...
This paper surveys the status of refugee entrepreneurs in several world regions and offers a menu of possible actions that governments, development partners, and private sector actors (including local...
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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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Although large-scale armed conflict has subsided, Syria continues to rank among the top countries in terms of violent death. Conflict undermines economic activity...
Now moving into its twelfth year, the conflict in Syria has inflicted a devastating impact on the inhabitants and the economy. The size of economic activity between 2010 and 2019 has...