Seminar on: MENA’s Unexpectedly Low Inflation: At What Cost?
FromDec 13, 2022 To Dec 13, 2022
Online Webinar
ERF and the office of the Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa, the World Bank are organizing this seminar to discuss the World Bank’s latest MENA Economic Update, “MENA’s Unexpectedly Low Inflation: At What Cost?”
The MENA region is facing important vulnerabilities, which the current crises—first the pandemic, then the war in Ukraine—have exacerbated. Prices of food and energy are higher, hurting the most vulnerable, and rising interest rates from the global tightening of monetary policy are making debt service more burdensome. Part I of the October 2022 MENA Economic Update explores some of the resulting vulnerabilities for MENA. MENA countries are facing diverging paths for future growth. Oil Exporters have seen windfall increases in state revenues from the rise in hydrocarbon prices, while oil importers face heightened stress and risk—from higher import bills, especially for food and energy, and the depreciation of local currencies in some countries.
Report can be accessed here
Agenda
Date
13/12/2022
Location
Online webinar
Time
From 4:00 pm To 5:30 pm
Speakers
Research Fellows
Hassan Aly
Dean, Business School, Nile University
Speakers
Hoda Assem
Economist, Office of the Chief Economist for...
Research Fellows
Ibrahim Elbadawi
Managing Director, Economic Research Forum
Research Fellows
Leila Baghdadi
Professor of Economics, ESSECT, University of Tunis