Report
COVID-19 posed additional strains on households’ livelihoods while exacerbating the job-creation challenge in Egypt.
COVID-19 posed additional strains on households’ livelihoods while exacerbating the job-creation challenge in Egypt.
The World Bank approved a US$200 million project to reduce air and climate pollution from critical sectors in Greater Cairo.
The project will support Egypt to put in place the building blocks of the Universal Health Insurance System.
The objective of the project is to to improve the affordability of formal housing for low-income households in Egypt and strengthen the capacity of Egypt’s Social Housing and Mortgage Finance Fund to design policies and coordinate social housing programs.
Country Director, Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti
COVID-19 is dampening growth, undermining external income sources, disrupting fiscal consolidation and exacerbating long-standing challenges.
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.