What is the best path to building better and greener after the COVID-19 pandemic? Currently, there are two opportunities that are especially relevant for MENA countries:

To protect Yemeni communities from the COVID-19 pandemic in almost all of the country's 333 districts, the Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project needed to introduce measures to ensure the...

Tunisia's ranking in terms of gender equality dropped from 90th to 124th between 2006 and 2020. The trend in the overall index is reflected in the sub-indices. Tunisia thus moves from the...

Research suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to exacerbate Tunisia’s development challenges by reversing the recent trend of poverty reduction. More people will likely fall below the...

Today, about two-thirds of Yemen's total population of 30 million faces hunger. Of that, 14.4 million need immediate food assistance to sustain or save their lives, 10 million acutely so.

The Middle East and North African countries cannot wait until the end of the pandemic to begin rebuilding the post-COVID region.

Yemen is at a critical juncture as the peace process struggles to gain traction, the threat of famine looms, and COVID-19 continues to spread. Raja Bentaouet Kattan, Yemen’s outgoing Country...

As new coronavirus cases rise again more than three months after lockdown ended, Tunisian pupils are preparing for schools to reopen. What can they expect? What health conditions lie in wait for...

A recent World Bank review of the Libyan financial sector demonstrated that even before the civil war, the financial sector in Libya was not sufficiently developed, and the current political...

Nine years after the Arab Spring, people in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen face tragically high levels of death, destruction, and displacement. From 2012 to 2017, the MENA region alone accounted for...