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  Speech by World Bank Managing Director, Juan-Jose Daboub
  US-Arab Economic Forum, May 7, 2008

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Implementing the Palestinian Reform and Development Agenda 

Despite efforts since the 2007 AHLC, economic growth arising from parallel actions by the PA, Israel and the donors has not not been fully realized.

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Schistosomiasis in Yemen

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Cooperation is Key to Ending Schistosomiasis in Yemen

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REPORT -MENA Education Report
New report suggests the time is right for changes in both approach and pace of reform
Feature Story |Questions & Answers | Report
Country focus:  Egypt | Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria


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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


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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)


MNA Climate Change

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.
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MNA women 

PROGRAM - Female Entrepreneurs in MENA Defy Expectations
New views of women's entrepreneurship in MENA.

Feature: English | عربي | Français
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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.

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Country reports:  Egypt | Morocco

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Events

May 19, 20082nd Middle East and North Africa Regional Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
May 10, 2008International Workshop on Evaluating Climate Change and Development
   
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What's New

May 09, 2008Restructuring the Libyan Economy (Feature Story)
May 09, 2008Tunisia : Launching the first evaluation workshop in the Maghreb (Feature Story)
May 09, 2008World Bank President and the Islamic Development Bank Discuss Opportunities to Advance Development Cooperation (Press Release)
  
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