Release Date:September, 2022

Russia's war in Ukraine has exacerbated food insecurity that had already been on the rise for half a decade. Low-income countries are affected the most. This note suggests that the food and more...

Author/Editor: Christopher J Jarvis, Gaelle Pierre, Benedicte Baduel, Dominique Fayad, Alexander de Keyserling, Babacar Sarr, Mariusz A Sumlinski.

Release Date:January, 2021

This IMF Departmental Paper presents the key areas in which countries of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Caucasus and Central Asia (MECA) can enhance governance and fight corruption to achieve more...

Author/Editor: Benedicte Baduel, Carolin Geginat, Gaelle Pierre.

Release Date:September, 2019

This paper examines the extent to which firms in selected MENA countries reported being constrained by the business environment around the time of the Arab Spring and the extent to which these more...

Author/Editor: Catriona Purfield, Harald Finger, Karen Ongley, Benedicte Baduel, Carolina Castellanos, Gaelle Pierre, Vahram Stepanyan, Erik Roos.

Release Date:July, 2018

This publication brings together a set of IMF papers that prepared as backgrounds for the various sessions of the conference and will help put into broader dissemination channels the results of this more...

Author/Editor: Bjoern Rother, Gaelle Pierre, Davide Lombardo, Risto Herrala, Priscilla Toffano, Erik Roos, Allan G Auclair, Karina Manasseh.

Release Date:September, 2016

In recent decades, the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) has experienced more frequent and severe conflicts than in any other region of the world, exacting a devastating human toll. The more...