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

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 pande...

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Main Authors: Gatti, Roberta, Lederman, Daniel, Fan, Rachel Yuting, Hatefi, Arian, Nguyen, Ha, Sautmann, Anja, Sax, Joseph Martin, Wood, Christina A.
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2021
Subjects:
ECONOMIC GROWTH
CURRENT ACCOUNT
OIL PRICE
EXTERNAL BALANCE
FISCAL TRENDS
OIL EXPORTER
OIL IMPORTER
PRODUCTIVITY
CORONAVIRUS
COVID-19
PANDEMIC IMPACT
HEALTH SYSTEM CAPACITY
PANDEMIC RESPONSE
Online Access:https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/890331633670289901/overconfident-how-economic-and-health-fault-lines-left-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-ill-prepared-to-face-covid-19
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36318

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https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/890331633670289901/overconfident-how-economic-and-health-fault-lines-left-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-ill-prepared-to-face-covid-19
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36318

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