High levels of marine and coastal pollution in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) pose a severe threat to the region’s “blue economy,” which is a key lever for economic growth in the region.…
If imports increase competition for Egypt’s workers, trade agreements seem to have a very limited potential for explaining Egypt’s labor-market outcomes.
Although there is a positive employment response to export expansion, it does not occur at a large enough scale to be felt at the macroeconomic level. Egypt seems to be an exception to the…
One year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the surge in global food prices that the war triggered has subsided. But there are still reasons for worry: Prices remain elevated, and new shocks…
Since 2011, as part of the Nile Basin Initiative, the Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office in partnership with CIWA has run an internship program for the next generation of talented water…
This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group. It introduces four papers published from October 16 to October 31 on various topics, including…
Food markets have been wildly disrupted by the war in Ukraine (Ruta, 2022; Espitia et al. 2022). Export restrictions have made a bad situation worse, contributing to food scarcity and higher food…
The worst global food crisis in a decade was one of the top issues discussed at the 12th ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization last month. It is a crisis made worse by the growing…
The more accurate the public can be in documenting their driving experiences, the more precise government agencies and development partners, like the World Bank, can help fill pot-holes—ensuring a…
Today, 4.4 billion people— just over half the world’s population—live in cities. In just the next three decades, two out of every three people on the planet will live in cities. Cities are the…