Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19 (Arabic)

This report examines the region’s economic prospects in 2021, forecasting that the recovery will be both tenuous and uneven as per capita GDP level stays below pre-pandemic levels. COVID-19 was a stress-test for the region’s public health systems, which were already overwhelmed even before the pandemic. Indeed, a decade of lackluster economic reforms left a legacy of large public sectors and high public debt that effectively crowded out investments...

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Author

Gatti,Roberta V.;

Fan,Yuting;

Hatefi,Arian;

Nguyen, Ha;

Sautmann,Anja;

Sax,Joseph Martin;

Wood,Christina A.;
Document Date
2021/10/01
Document Type
Publication
Report Number
164920
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Middle East and North Africa,
Region
Middle East and North Africa,
Disclosure Date
2022/03/07
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19
Keywords
public health system

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Gatti,Roberta V.; Fan,Yuting; Hatefi,Arian; Nguyen, Ha; Sautmann,Anja; Sax,Joseph Martin; Wood,Christina A..

Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19 (Arabic). MENA Economic Update, October 2021 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/752531633670601354

Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19 (Arabic)

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