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...
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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Format: | Serial |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2021
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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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