PROGRAM-World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction partnership (GGFR) Current estimate of gas flared or wasted in the MENA is about 50 billion cubic meters annually, making it the second largest flaring region in the world Release | Energy Efficiency in MENA
REPORT - West Bank & Gaza Telecom Opening up the Palestinian telecommunications sector to competition will have far reaching effects throughout the economy. Release | Report (272k pdf)
PROGRAM -Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa Increasing concerns about the impact of climate change on the MENA region, a region already facing increasingly frequent droughts and a looming water supply shortage. Article | Issue Brief
REPORT-Doing Business 2008 Egypt is the top reformer in the world for 2006/07. Egypt outpaced other reformers worldwide and in the Middle East and North Africa in making it easier to do business, with improvements in five of the 10 areas studied by the report. Release|Profile (pdf): MENA Region Country reports: Egypt | Morocco