The World Bank has sharply downgraded its growth projections for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, cutting its forecasts for 2025 and 2026 to 2.6% and 3.7%, respectively. It marked ...

Middle East and North Africa for the World Bank, has affirmed the bank's plans to increase climate financing for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to $10 billion by 2025. In statements to ...

World Bank will increase climate financing actions as MENA region tipped to see GDP growth to $13tn with green growth strategies The World Bank plans to increase climate financing for the Middle East ...

DUBAI, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The World Bank is particularly concerned in the Middle East and North Africa region about Lebanon and Tunisia and, to a lesser extent, Egypt and Jordan, the bank's vice ...

Success depends too often on "privilege and vested interest instead of competitiveness," Shamshad Akhtar, vice president of the World Bank's MENA region, said at a conference where the results of the ...

DUBAI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The World Bank expects Saudi Arabia's economy to contract by 0.9% in 2023, it said in a report on Thursday, revising its growth forecast for the world's top oil exporter ...