Trade Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific: New Game, Old Rules?

Editor's Note: This blog draws on the forthcoming article “New Trade Regionalism in Asia: Looking Past the Sino-American Great Game, " written by Swarnim Wagle, to be published in the …

Swarnim Wagle, Miles McKenna |
Agriculture and Food, Trade, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Digital Development, Governance

Taking Up the Challenge in Algeria

It was my first week in Algeria, and I found myself racing through the capital in a motorcade. This was far from my usual form of transportation, but rather the result of a fortunate coincidence.…

Emmanuel Noubissie Ngankam |
Governance, Competitiveness, Social Sustainability and Inclusion

Algeria on the move (Video Blog)

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Inger Andersen |
Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Governance

Natural disasters in the Arab World: Today’s plan is a shelter for tomorrow’s storm

        Disaster Risk Management has become a critical component of national policy and planning. In the Middle East and North Africa region, the interplay of natural disasters, together with the…

Franck Bousquet |
Governance

The Arab Spring: an opportunity for financial inclusion?

        The end of 2011 was undeniably a momentous time across the Arab World with uprisings first emerging in Tunisia and Egypt and then spreading to Libya, Yemen, and Syria. Expectations of 2012…

Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Governance, Jobs & Development