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1 day ago · Middle East. Middle East, the lands around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, encompassing at least the Arabian Peninsula and, by some definitions, Iran, North Africa, and sometimes beyond. The central part of this general area was formerly called the Near East, a name given to it by some of the first modern Western ...
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6 days ago · The Africa and Middle East Teaching Fund Initiative is now open for applications from UCL academics wishing to collaborate with higher education institutions across Africa and the Middle East. The 2024/25 funding call will close on 21 June 2024, 11:59 pm BST
2 days ago · Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) progress in improving economic governance. However, surveys suggest that citizens and businesses continue to view weak governance and corruption as serious problems in the region. Governance indicators broadly corroborate this view. Improving governance and fighting corruption are key to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic fallout and building ...
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5 days ago · A fragile recovery continues in the Middle East and Central Asia region. The region has made good progress since the beginning of the year, but new challenges have emerged. They include a pandemic wave in countries with weak vaccination progress and rising inflation, which has contributed to declining monetary policy space, adding to the difficulties posed by limited fiscal policy space ...
1 day ago · Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity in the first half of 2020 than anticipated, and the recovery is projected to be more gradual than previously forecast. In 2021 global growth is projected at 5.4 percent. Overall, this would leave ...
2 days ago · The performance data shown in tables and graphs on this page is calculated in GBX of the fund/index/average (as applicable), on a Bid To Bid / Nav to Nav basis, with gross dividends re-invested on ex-dividend date.
1 day ago · Elsewhere in Middle East and North Africa, external financial support has mostly helped to contain balance of payments strains, but fiscal and monetary policy will need to be kept tight for the time being. Tunisia being the economy where it is most needed or face a messy balance of payments crisis and sovereign default.
