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Apr 05, 2023
MENA Economic Update, April 2023
The report forecasts MENA’s GDP will slow to 3.0% in 2023, from 5.8% in 2022. Oil exporters will experience slower growth, but a large gap remains between high-income countries and the rest of the region.
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Oct 06, 2020
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020
The World Bank’s biennial Poverty and Shared Prosperity report finds that the rate of extreme poverty in the MENA region rose from 3.8% in 2015 to 7.2% in 2018 — the latest year for which data is available.
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Oct 07, 2021
Djibouti's Economic Update — October 2021
GDP growth is estimated to have reached 5.1% compared to 0.5% in 2020, driven by a rebound of transport and logistics services demand from Ethiopia.
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Jul 15, 2020Building for Peace: Reconstruction for Security, Sustainable Peace, and Equity ...
The World Bank and the German Development Cooperation have joined efforts to take a fresh look at reconstruction, development, and the transition to sustainable peace in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and ...
