• Global economic prospects, January 2015 : having fiscal space and using it (Vol. 2 of 3) : Executive summary
    Global growth again disappointed in 2014 but a lackluster recovery is underway, with increasingly divergent prospects in major economies. Looking ahead, growth is expected to rise slowly, supported by...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 93690 التاريخ : January 13, 2015 المؤلف: World Bank
  • Middle East and North Africa (MENA) conference on role of teachers unions in improving quality of education
    Teachers, as the primary education service delivery agents, play a lead role in what, how, and how much student’s learn, including among disadvantaged populations. Yet, often governments’ education re...
    تقرير #: ACS14962 التاريخ : January 9, 2015
  • Expanding opportunities for the next generation : early childhood development in the Middle East and North Africa
    Early childhood is the most important stage of human development. In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), there is little research and inadequate investment in this crucial stage of life. This boo...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 93713 التاريخ : January 7, 2015 المؤلف: El-Kogali,Safaa El Tayeb ; Krafft,Caroline Gould
  • West Bank and Gaza - Investment climate assessment : fragmentation and uncertainty (Vol. 2 of 2) : Executive summary
    This Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) seeks to evaluate the conditions under which the Palestinian private sector currently operates in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza strip. ...
    النوع : Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) تقرير #: AUS2122 التاريخ : January 1, 2015 المؤلف: Assaf,Nabila
  • What are green bonds?
    The explosive growth of green bonds in the capital markets is increasingly attracting attention from investors. This surge in interest has created a demand for accessible information on the green bond...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 99662 التاريخ : January 1, 2015
  • Jobs or privileges : unleashing the employment potential of the Middle East and North Africa
    Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries face a critical choice as they strive to generate greater private sector growth and more jobs: promote competition, provide equal opportunities for all en...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 92767 التاريخ : January 1, 2015 المؤلف: Schiffbauer,Marc Tobias ; Sy,Abdoulaye ; Hussain,Sahar Sajjad ; Sahnoun,Hania ; Keefer,Philip E.
  • Strengthening the growth-employment-welfare nexus
    Between 2007 and 2012, Iraq's GDP grew at a cumulative rate of over 40 percent, and averaged an annual rate of 7 percent between 2008 and 2012. Yet, per capita consumption, the basis for measuring pov...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 93859 التاريخ : January 1, 2015
  • Expanding protection to the poor and vulnerable
    A significant share of Iraq's population consumes at levels close to the poverty line and remains vulnerable to falling into poverty. In other words, a small increase or decrease in incomes and consum...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 93861 التاريخ : January 1, 2015
  • Access to information in the Middle East and North Africa region : an overview of recent developments in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia
    The right to access and request information is enshrined in article 19 of the universal declaration of human rights. Access to information (ATI) plays an essential role for promoting accountability an...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 80668 التاريخ : January 1, 2015 المؤلف: Almadhoun,Said Ahmad
  • MIGA : mobilizing investments, rebuilding confidence
    Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) insures foreign direct investments against losses related to: (i) currency inconvertibility and transfer restrictions; (ii) expropriation; (iii) war, ci...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 77591 التاريخ : January 1, 2015
  • Addressing the consequences of Iraq's difficult legacy
    Iraq has been a nexus of conflict and fragility since the early 1980's, and has experienced multiple types of conflict: insurgency, international war, sectarian strife, persistent terrorism, regional ...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 93860 التاريخ : January 1, 2015
  • Principles for public credit guarantee schemes for SMEs
    Access to finance, particularly credit, is widely recognized as problematic for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), hampering their growth and development. To address this challenge, many governments...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 101769 التاريخ : January 1, 2015
  • Plunging oil prices
    This issue of the MENA Quarterly Economic Brief focuses on the implications of low oil prices for eight developing countries, or the MENA-8 (oil importers: Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon and Jordan and oil e...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 93847 التاريخ : January 1, 2015 المؤلف: Mottaghi,Lili ; Devarajan,Shantayanan
  • Labor market dynamics in Libya : reintegration for recovery
    Since the 2011 uprising that toppled the former regime, Libya has been mired in deep political strife. An economy in which agriculture once flourished was converted wholesale to an oil-based rentier s...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 97478 التاريخ : January 1, 2015 المؤلف: Elgazzar,Hebatalla ; Lahga, Abdel Rahmen ; Quota,Manal Bakur N ; Rother,Friederike Uta ; Hargreaves, Laurence
  • Champions wanted : promoting exports in the Middle East and North Africa
    While other emerging regions were thriving, MENA's aggregate export performance over the past two decades has been consistently weak. Using detailed firm-level export data from Customs administrations...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 95681 التاريخ : January 1, 2015 المؤلف: Freund,Caroline ; Jaud,Melise
  • Emerging Turkey: Lessons from an Economy in Transition
    Turkey’s solid economic performance over the past decade is a source of inspiration for many emerging markets and offers some valuable lessons for their policy makers. A World Bank report titled “Turk...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 180167 التاريخ : December 10, 2014 المؤلف: World Bank
  • Lessons for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region from case studies of utility delivery of energy efficiency
    This report, produced for a World Bank project on energy efficiency in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, includes detailed case studies of policy and regulatory mechanisms implemented in...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 109024 التاريخ : December 9, 2014 المؤلف: Allen, J. Riley ; Crossley, David
  • Keeping the Floods at Bay and Building Resiliency in Can Tho, Vietnam
    Can Tho is the fourth largest city in Vietnam, and plays an important regional role as the Mekong Delta’s growth engine and transport hub. Chronic seasonal flooding, however, causes significant econom...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 166870 التاريخ : December 9, 2014
  • Transforming the Economy to Achieve Zero Net Emissions
    To stabilize warming at less than two degrees Celsius, as the international community agreed in 2009, the world will have to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero before 2100. Economic policy will ...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 166596 التاريخ : December 8, 2014
  • New Guide Targeting Violence Against Women
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 166814 التاريخ : December 3, 2014