New report finds that 5.5 million more Iraqis could be pushed into poverty due to COVID-19 & oil collapse.
New report highlights what Iraq can do to sustain future growth, and shows why it has not managed to achieve high growth.
Women’s labor force participation in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon remains among the lowest in the world.
The project will promote the social and economic inclusion of about 3,000 conflict-affected Iraqi youth by facilitating their engagement in youth-led community development activities, peace building initiatives and micro-entrepreneurship projects.
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.
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 ...
The Mashreq region has seen more than its share of deaths, economic losses, and instability for the last decade.
The need for greater transparency comes as the MENA region faces unprecedented dual shocks from the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic and the collapse in oil prices.
