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.
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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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spelling	okr-10986-363182021-10-21T14:58:59Z Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19 Gatti, Roberta Lederman, Daniel Fan, Rachel Yuting Hatefi, Arian Nguyen, Ha Sautmann, Anja Sax, Joseph Martin Wood, Christina A. 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 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 pandemic. Indeed, a decade of lackluster economic reforms left a legacy of large public sectors and high public debt that effectively crowded out investments in social services such as public health. This edition points out that the region’s health systems were not only ill-prepared for the pandemic, but suffered from over-confidence, as authorities painted an overly optimistic picture in self-assessments of health system preparedness. Going forward, governments must improve data transparency for public health and undertake reforms to remedy historical underinvestment in public health systems. 2021-09-30T19:12:49Z 2021-09-30T19:12:49Z 2021-10-07 Serial 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-19 978-1-4648-1798-4 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36318 MENA Economic Update;October 2021 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication Middle East and North Africa Middle East North Africa
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topic	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
spellingShingle	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 Gatti, Roberta Lederman, Daniel Fan, Rachel Yuting Hatefi, Arian Nguyen, Ha Sautmann, Anja Sax, Joseph Martin Wood, Christina A. Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19
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description	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 pandemic. Indeed, a decade of lackluster economic reforms left a legacy of large public sectors and high public debt that effectively crowded out investments in social services such as public health. This edition points out that the region’s health systems were not only ill-prepared for the pandemic, but suffered from over-confidence, as authorities painted an overly optimistic picture in self-assessments of health system preparedness. Going forward, governments must improve data transparency for public health and undertake reforms to remedy historical underinvestment in public health systems.
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author	Gatti, Roberta Lederman, Daniel Fan, Rachel Yuting Hatefi, Arian Nguyen, Ha Sautmann, Anja Sax, Joseph Martin Wood, Christina A.
author_facet	Gatti, Roberta Lederman, Daniel Fan, Rachel Yuting Hatefi, Arian Nguyen, Ha Sautmann, Anja Sax, Joseph Martin Wood, Christina A.
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title	Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19
title_short	Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19
title_full	Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19
title_fullStr	Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed	Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19
title_sort	overconfident : how economic and health fault lines left the middle east and north africa ill-prepared to face covid-19
publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate	2021
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Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19

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