LEADER 04507nam 22005293 450 001 9910810059703321 005 20220406200046.0 010 $a1-4648-1777-4 024 7 $a10.1596/978-1-4648-1776-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29043157 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29043157 035 $a(OCoLC)1291255521 035 $a(CKB)21004152500041 035 $a(NjHacI)9921004152500041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921004152500041 100 $a20220131d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDistributional impacts of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa region 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$a:$cWorld Bank Publications,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (281 pages) 225 1 $aMENA Development Report 311 08$aPrint version: Hoogeveen, Johannes G. Distributional Impacts of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa Region : World Bank Publications,c2021 327 $aOverview -- Setting the Stage / Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Stuti Manchanda, Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodri?guez -- Unequal Impact of COVID-19 on MENA Households / Minh Cong Nguyen, Gildas Bopahbe Deudibe, Romeo Jacky Gansey -- West Bank and Gaza: Links among Income, Jobs, and Food / Pablo Sua?rez Becerra, Eduardo A. Mala?squez, Jawad Al-Saleh -- Tunisia: The Link between Dropping Incomes and Living Standards / Federica Alfani, Dorra Dhraief, Vasco Molini, Dan Pavelesku, Marco Ranzani -- Djibouti: Refugees More Vulnerable Than Nationals / Bilal Malaeb, Anne Duplantier, Romeo Jacky Gansey, Sekou Tidiani Konate?, Omar Abdoulkader Mohamed, Jeff Tanner, Harriet Mugera -- Tunisia: Poorest Households Are the Most Vulnerable / Deeksha Kokas, Abdelrahmen El Lahga, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo -- West Bank and Gaza: Emergence of the New Poor / Romeo Jacky Gansey, Alia Jane Aghajanian, Jawad Al-Saleh -- The Islamic Republic of Iran: Battling Both Income Loss and Inflation / Laura Rodriguez, Aziz Atamanov -- Lebanon: Sharply Increased Poverty for Nationals and Refugees / Bilal Malaeb, Matthew Wai-Poi. 330 $aCOVID-19 is one of multiple crises to have hit the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the decade following the Arab Spring. War, oil price declines, economic slowdowns, and now a pandemic are tearing at the social fabric of a region characterized by high rates of unemployment, high levels of informality, and low annual economic growth. The economic costs of the pandemic are estimated at about USD 227 billion, and fiscal support packages across MENA are averaging 2.7 percent of GDP, putting pressure on already weak fiscal balances and making a quick recovery challenging. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, MENA was the only region in the world experiencing increases in poverty and declines in life satisfaction. Distributional Impacts of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa Region investigates how COVID-19 changed the welfare of individuals and households in the region. It does so by relying on phone surveys implemented across the region and complements these with microsimulation exercises to assess the impact of COVID-19 on jobs, income, poverty, and inequality. The two approaches complement and corroborate each other's results, thereby making the findings more robust and richer. This report's results show that, in the short run, poverty rates in MENA will increase significantly and inequality will widen. A group of 'new poor' is likely to emerge that may have difficulty recovering from the economic consequences of COVID-19. The report adds value by analyzing newly gathered primary data, along with projections based on newly modeled micro- and macrosimulations, and by identifying key issues that policy makers should focus on to enable a quick, inclusive, and sustained economic recovery. 410 0$aMENA Development Report 606 $aPoverty$zAfrica, North 606 $aPoverty$zMiddle East 607 $aAfrica, North$xEconomic conditions 607 $aMiddle East$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aPoverty 615 0$aPoverty 676 $a337.161 700 $aHoogeveen$b Johannes G$01708672 701 $aLopez-Acevedo$b Gladys$01157140 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810059703321 996 $aDistributional impacts of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa region$94097848 997 $aUNINA