Medriva This article presents the Mauritanian experience in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. It indicates that Mauritania has been one of the most proactive African countries in promoting the COVID-19 vaccination, where vaccination centers have been bustling with activity. Article
Read MoreWorld Bank This World Bank blog-post discusses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on schools and learning in Kuwait. It states the long-term life long losses to their earning, males being affected more tragically than females. Article
Read MoreWorld Bank This World Bank blog-post discusses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on schools and learning in Kuwait. It states the long-term life long losses to their earning, males being affected more tragically than females. Article
Read MoreProject on Middle East Political Science This working paper argues that CSOs made progress in combatting violence during the first year of the pandemic due to political openness, a culture of coalitions, and bipartisan support for eliminating violence against women. However, the President’s power grab and subsequent political instability led to a breakdown in coalition…
Read MoreIFAD This article exhibits the ways through which IFAD helps Yemeni farmers during the coronavirus pandemic. Article
Read MoreDistinktion Journal of Social Theory This article adopts a decolonial lens to assess the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine in Palestine and globally. It challenges the underlying premise being that the advanced, wealthy, and capable nation-states have endogenously earned the position of power and prosperity and that the world’s poor nation-states are posited as the…
Read MoreEconomic Research Forum This working paper discusses the impact of job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on household income and food security in Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco. The authors show that laid-off workers have a higher propensity to consume their savings, get help from relatives, sell assets and borrow from family. Working Paper
Read MoreEconomic Research Forum This working paper studies employment rates, wage inequality, hours of work, and employment recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic and after a general recovery in mid-2021. Working Paper
Read MoreEconomic Research Forum This working paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on job and income losses, and its relation to pushing people in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco into extreme poverty. Working Paper
Read MoreProject on Middle East Political Science This article studies the nature of the government response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), exploring both within-region diversity and between-region variation. It concludes that while the MENA region as a whole is broadly similar to other parts of the world in its…
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