Report
Iran's economy entered a third year of recession following the triple-shock of sanctions, oil market collapse and Coronavirus.
Iran's economy entered a third year of recession following the triple-shock of sanctions, oil market collapse and Coronavirus.
The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the impact of economic sanctions and existing structural imbalances in Iran’s economy.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic combined with other factors present significant risks to the country’s economic outlook.
The report provides an update on key economic developments and policies over the past six months. It examines these economic developments and policies in a longer-term and global context, and assesses their implications.
The World Bank’s biennial Poverty and Shared Prosperity report finds that the rate of extreme poverty in the MENA region rose from 3.8% in 2015 to 7.2% in 2018 — the latest year for which data is available.
The World Bank and the German Development Cooperation have joined efforts to take a fresh look at reconstruction, development, and the transition to sustainable peace in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and ...
The Mashreq region has seen more than its share of deaths, economic losses, and instability for the last decade.
