Documents & Reports
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Blue Skies, Blue Seas : Air Pollution, Marine Plastics, and Coastal Erosion in the Middle East and North Africa (Vol. 1 of 2) (English)
This book shows how virtually all forms of natural capital, but particularly ‘blue’ natural capital, skies and seas, has been degrading in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region over the last three...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 168524 Document Date: February 8, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Heger,Martin,Vashold,Lukas Marco,Palacios,Emilse Anabella,Alahmadi,Mala Amer D,Bromhead,Marjory-Anne,Acerbi,Marcelo Hector
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Blue Skies, Blue Seas : Air Pollution, Marine Plastics, and Coastal Erosion in the Middle East and North Africa (Vol. 2 of 2) : Overview (English)
This book shows how virtually all forms of natural capital, but particularly ‘blue’ natural capital, skies and seas, has been degrading in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region over the last three...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 168524 Document Date: February 8, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Heger,Martin,Vashold,Lukas Marco,Palacios,Emilse Anabella,Alahmadi,Mala Amer D,Bromhead,Marjory-Anne,Acerbi,Marcelo Hector
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Blue Skies, Blue Seas : Air Pollution, Marine Plastics, and Coastal Erosion in the Middle East and North Africa (Vol. 2 of 2) : Overview (Arabic)
This book shows how virtually all forms of natural capital, but particularly ‘blue’ natural capital, skies and seas, has been degrading in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region over the last three...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 168524 Document Date: February 8, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Heger,Martin,Vashold,Lukas Marco,Palacios,Emilse Anabella,Alahmadi,Mala Amer D,Bromhead,Marjory-Anne,Acerbi,Marcelo Hector
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Blue Skies, Blue Seas : Air Pollution, Marine Plastics, and Coastal Erosion in the Middle East and North Africa (Vol. 2 of 2) : Overview (French)
This book shows how virtually all forms of natural capital, but particularly ‘blue’ natural capital, skies and seas, has been degrading in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region over the last three...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 168524 Document Date: February 8, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Heger,Martin,Vashold,Lukas Marco,Palacios,Emilse Anabella,Alahmadi,Mala Amer D,Bromhead,Marjory-Anne,Acerbi,Marcelo Hector
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Distributional Impacts of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa Region (English)
COVID-19 is one of multiple crises to have hit the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the decade following the Arab Spring. War, oil price declines, economic slowdowns and now a pandemic are...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 166464 Document Date: October 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hoogeveen,Johannes G.,Lopez-Acevedo,Gladys C.
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The Reconstruction of Iraq after 2003 : Learning from Its Successes and Failures (English)
Beginning in 2003, diverse and significant actors, both domestic and international, engaged in reconstruction activities in Iraq. The total budget committed to Iraq’s reconstruction was unprecedented among...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 136976 Document Date: January 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Matsunaga,Hideki
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Eruptions of popular anger : the economics of the Arab spring and its aftermath (English)
The Arab Spring protests caught most of the world by surprise and precipitated a chain of events that changed the course of history in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ushering in a period of prolonged...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 121942 Document Date: December 6, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ianchovichina,Elena
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Jobs or privileges : unleashing the employment potential of the Middle East and North Africa (English)
This report for the Middle East and North Africa shows that policies that lower competition and create an uneven playing field are common and constrain private sector job creation. These policies take...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 92870 Document Date: November 16, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hussain,Sahar Sajjad,Keefer,Philip E.,Sahnoun,Hania,Schiffbauer,Marc Tobias,Sy,Abdoulaye
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The road traveled : Dubai's journey towards improving private education - a World Bank review (Arabic)
As Dubai has grown over the last two decades, the demand for private education has grown with it, a reflection of the number of expatriates settling in the city. Today, 88 percent of all students attend...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 91884 Document Date: November 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cuadra,Ernesto Pancracio,Thacker,Simon
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The road traveled : Dubai's journey towards improving private education - a World Bank review (English)
As Dubai has grown over the last two decades, the demand for private education has grown with it, a reflection of the number of expatriates settling in the city. Today, 88 percent of all students attend...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 91884 Document Date: March 21, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cuadra,Ernesto Pancracio,Thacker,Simon
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Opening doors : gender equality and development in the Middle East and North Africa (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (English)
Since the early 1990s, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region have made admirable progress in reducing the gap between girls and boys in areas such as access to education and health...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 75181 Document Date: February 6, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Opening doors : gender equality and development in the Middle East and North Africa (Vol. 2 of 2) : Overview (Arabic)
Since the early 1990s, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region have made admirable progress in reducing the gap between girls and boys in areas such as access to education and health...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 75181 Document Date: February 6, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Inclusion and resilience : the way forward for social safety nets in the Middle East and North Africa (English)
This report is organized in five chapters: chapter one, a framework for Social Safety Nets (SSN) reform in the Middle East and North Africa, describes and illustrates the reasons for the region's growing...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 80515 Document Date: January 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Levin,Victoria,Morgandi,Matteo,Silva,Joana C. G.
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Adaptation to a changing climate in the Arab countries : a case for adaptation governance and leadership in building climate resilience (English)
Adapting to climate change is not a new phenomenon for the Arab world. For thousands of years, the people in Arab countries have coped with the challenges of climate variability by adapting their survival...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 73482 Document Date: November 16, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Verner,Dorte
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The way forward for social safety nets in the Middle East and North Africa (English)
Today, Social Safety Nets (SSNs) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are ripe for reform, for moving forward on a path that goes from existing systems to ones that incentivize investments in education...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 73835 Document Date: November 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Silva,Joana C. G.
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Inclusion and resilience : the way forward for social safety nets in the Middle East and North Africa - overview (Arabic)
The report aims to meet two broad objectives: (a) enhance knowledge about the current state of existing social safety nets (SSNs) and assess their effectiveness in responding to new and emerging challenges...
Document Type: Other Social Protection Study Report No.: 72975 Document Date: September 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Levin,Victoria,Morgandi,Matteo,Silva,Joana C. G.
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Inclusion and resilience : the way forward for social safety nets in the Middle East and North Africa - overview : Inclusion et résistance aux chocs : perspectives pour l'assistance sociale au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord (French)
The report aims to meet two broad objectives: (a) enhance knowledge about the current state of existing social safety nets (SSNs) and assess their effectiveness in responding to new and emerging challenges...
Document Type: Other Social Protection Study Report No.: 72975 Document Date: September 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Levin,Victoria,Morgandi,Matteo,Silva,Joana C. G.
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Inclusion and resilience : the way forward for social safety nets in the Middle East and North Africa - overview (English)
The report aims to meet two broad objectives: (a) enhance knowledge about the current state of existing social safety nets (SSNs) and assess their effectiveness in responding to new and emerging challenges...
Document Type: Other Social Protection Study Report No.: 72975 Document Date: September 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Levin,Victoria,Morgandi,Matteo,Silva,Joana C. G.
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Adaptation to a changing climate in the Arab countries : overview and technical summary (English)
Water scarcity will increasingly be a challenge in the Arab countries. The Arab region has the lowest freshwater resource endowment in the world. All but six Arab countries (the Comoros, Iraq, Lebanon...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 73483 Document Date: July 23, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Verner,Dorte
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Adaptation to a changing climate in the Arab countries : overview and technical summary (Arabic)
Water scarcity will increasingly be a challenge in the Arab countries. The Arab region has the lowest freshwater resource endowment in the world. All but six Arab countries (the Comoros, Iraq, Lebanon...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 73483 Document Date: July 23, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Verner,Dorte