Economic Development

ورقة موقف حول الاجتماعات السنوية للبنك الدولي وصندوق النقد الدولي: المقاربات عينها ستؤدي إلى النتائج عينها

عُقِدَت الاجتماعات[1] هذا العام على خلفية التحدّيات المتزايدة حول العالم. فبعد سنوات من تدابير التقشّف التي فرضها صندوق النقد الدولي والبنك الدولي، تقلصت برامج الحماية الاجتماعية الشاملة وبرزت في المقابل برامج تستهدف الفئات الأكثر فقرًا، ممّا جعلَ المجتمعات غير مستعدّة للتصدّي لجائحة كوفيد-١٩، أو لارتفاع معدّلات التضخّم، أو لتعادعيات الحرب الروسية-الأوكرانية وما نتجَ عنها من تعطيلٍ لسلاسل توريد المواد الغذائية ومصادر الطاقة.

Position Paper on the World Bank and IMF annual meetings: the same approaches will yield the same results

Each year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WB) convene a meeting in a selected country, bringing together government officials, academics, and civil society organisations to evaluate the performance of the IMF and WB and deliberate on future prospects.

Tunisia’s “Al-Ahyaa Al-Sha’Biya”: Socioeconomic Grievances, Mobilisation, and Repression

In 2021, Tunisia witnessed several political and socio-economic crises, which were further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The country had already been facing an acute economic contraction – described by the International Monetary Fund as the worst crisis since Tunisia’s independence in 1956 (IMF, 2021). In 2020, Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi indicated that the country had a negative growth rate of 6.5 percent and a public debt amounting to 86 percent of GDP (Chomiak, 2021).

Mapping of Key Socio-Economic Indicators

Four maps showing poverty distribution, distribution of poor population per economic sector, education level of poor population, and average household size, across Lebanon.

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2007 Project Distribution Across Lebanon

Maps showing the distribution of development projects in various fields including health, education, agriculture, etc.

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Mapping of Vulnerabilities in Lebanon

This Map Contains The Following Information Layers: - Political Layer displaying the electoral weight of each of the opposition and the loyalists in each of the electoral districts of the 2005 General Elections - Confessional Layer, displaying a rough presentation of the geographic distribution of Lebanese confessions as well as the mixed areas.

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