Measuring regional poverty in MENA: Update and remaining challenges
When the World Bank recently released the 2018 Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report; Piecing Together the Poverty Puzzle, which includes the global and regional poverty estimates, the Middle East and...
View ArticleChanging the lives of Egyptian people left behind for a long time: Taha’s Story
"It was the first time we talked while the officials listened. Not as in the past, when they used to talk and we just listened." With this simple statement, Taha Al-Leithi, a young Egyptian man from...
View ArticleSolving the water crisis in Beirut
Patrick Abi Salloum / World Bank In many ways, Beirut is the capital of resilience and generosity. Over the centuries, the city has embraced, and continues to embrace, civilizations and cultures of...
View ArticleYemen’s private sector teaming up to support humanitarian and recovery efforts
Since 2015, the Republic of Yemen has been overtaken by a brutal conflict that has resulted in massive casualties, hundreds of thousands of internally displaced families, substantial infrastructure...
View ArticleSmart regulation is key for creating a new digital economy in MENA
The call for the transformation of the role of the state contained in the latest MENA Economic Monitor (MEM) cannot be overemphasized. For the "moonshot approach" to the new digital economy to succeed...
View ArticleClean tech start-ups: Enabling their success in emerging markets & helping...
When Fatima Beraich started Biodome, a biogas company in Morocco, she wanted to create a better designed waste digester to turn organic waste into biogas as a sustainable source for power supply. She...
View ArticleInvest in women to boost growth in MENA
Only one in five working-age women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has a job or is actively looking for one. Currently, women make up only 21% of the labor force and only contribute...
View ArticleThe Middle East and North Africa cannot miss the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The traditional route of industrialization for developing countries may no longer be available for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This should not be a source of regret, as the...
View ArticleYouth volunteering for social impact: evidence from Lebanon
Photo Credit: Patrick Fadous, NVSP Communications Officer Jean, a Christian Catholic, Graziella, a Christian Orthodox, Ali, a Muslim Shiite, Roukaya, a Muslim Sunni, and Ashraf, a Druze, met for the...
View ArticleA new successful approach to portfolio performance in the Maghreb that could...
When it comes to improving portfolio performance, the Maghreb Country Management Unit (CMU) has found a solution that worked well: Partnering with the Government counterparts to form a strong...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....