Resources

This Annual Report focuses on how two of the World Bank Group’s institutions – the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA) – are partnering with countries to end extreme poverty by 2030, promote...Read More

Lebanon’s political development since independence has been influenced primarily by its evolving confessional system. However, this system, originally established to balance the competing interests of local religious communities, is increasingly seen as an impediment...Read More

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have produced the most successful anti-poverty movement in history and will serve as the jumping-off point for the new sustainable development agenda to be adopted this year. The MDG Report 2015 found that the 15-year effort to...Read More

This report argues that the development model followed in the Arab region can be placed on a more socially just foundation. It attempts to solve ‘riddles’ such as whether inequality is low and fairly stable, as the data show, or high and rising as observed by the naked...Read More

The article assesses the impact of the pro-poor policies on poverty reduction in Egypt by tracing the evolution of the low-expenditure (income) group in the country over the last decade. Vol. 32, No. 2, Summer 2002, pp. 67-96 Read More

An annual report on economic developments in the Arab countries prepared jointly by the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF), the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the League of Arab States and the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC). In...Read More

It draws a profile of poverty based on money-metric poverty measurements and calculates a national poverty line based on household expen- ditures. Relying on the expenditure data from the Multi-Purpose Survey, the re- port provides a comprehensive overview of the...Read More

The 2013 Human Development Report presents Human Development Index (HDI) values and ranks for 187 countries and UN-recognized territories, along with the Inequality-adjusted HDI for 132 countries, the Gender Inequality Index for 148 countries, and the Multidimensional...Read More

This Country Briefing presents the results of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and explains key findings graphically. Read More

This Quick Note provides an overview of the World Bank report “Striving for Better Jobs: the Challenge of Informality in the Middle East and North Africa.” The report was completed as a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests swept across the Arab world....Read More