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| 28 October 2015 |
Survey of Economic and Social Development in the Arab Region 2014-2015 |
Arab economies showed some resilience against adverse conditions: low oil prices, social unrest and armed violence. Low oil prices impacts on Arab development. |
| 15 December 2020 |
Impact of COVID-19 on Migrants and Refugees in the Arab Region |
This publication examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants and refugees in the Arab region. It focuses on several relevant areas including health, income security, the economy and education. It also addresses return and voluntary repatriation, and trafficking in persons during the pandemic. The paper and its accompanying policy brief present a set of actionable short- and medium-term policy recommendations to guide countries’ responses to these issues.
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| 2 September 2020 |
Trends and Impacts in Conflict Settings, No. 6: Developing a Risk-Assessment Framework for the Arab Region |
Publication develops a risk assessment framework for the Arab region |
| 3 August 2018 |
Social Development Report 2: Inequality, Autonomy and Change in the Arab Region |
This report examines how inequality and personal autonomy are likely to impact on the broad political settlement in the Arab region overtime. |
| 1 February 2019 |
Arab Horizon 2030: Digital Technologies for Development |
The study focuses on the role of digital technologies in sustainable development in the Arab region for 2030 and sets proposals for their use under seven thematic policy areas. |
| 7 January 2021 |
Survey of Economic and Social Developments 2019-2020 |
Providing an analysis of the global situation in mid-2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, is a difficult task. The outbreak has exerted tremendous pressure on the global economy, the scale of which is still unclear. Consequently, the present report sets out two scenarios: a moderate one projecting that the crisis will end and the economy will rebound in the last quarter of 2020; and a pessimistic one in which the crisis will persist throughout 2020 and continue in the first quarter of 2021. |
| 10 June 2020 |
Arab Sustainable Development Report 2020 |
The Arab Sustainable Development Report 2020 (ASDR 2020) charts the regional trajectory for achieving the 2030 Agenda. It analyzes where the region stands on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It offers a quantitative and qualitative analysis of each SDG in relation to the global indicator framework adopted by the General Assembly in 2017. |
| 20 May 2015 |
Demographic Profile of the Arab Countries: Analysis of the Ageing Phenomenon |
The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) drawn up at the Second World Assembly on Ageing in 2002 outlined a global agenda to deal with the issues of elderly populations. The Plan of Action on Ageing called for a new approach to policies and programmes for older persons in the wake of the demographic changes experienced in countries all over the world. Many regions of the world have witnessed a rapid increase in life expectancy and as a result a phenomenal growth of their populations during the second half of the last century. |
| 20 May 2015 |
Survey of Economic and Social Developments in the ESCWA Region, 2010-2011 |
The objective of the Survey is to provide governments, and the general public with a snapshot of the current socioeconomic situation and the outlook for 2011. |
| 15 May 2019 |
Policy Briefs on Food Security Issues in the Arab Region |
This compendium of briefs proposes policy options based on major trends, scenarios and interventions to sustainably respond to the Arab region’s food security challenges by highlighting key approaches to sustainable, context-based and climate-smart agricultural production interventions best suited to Arab States, outlining key options for optimizing engagement with world food markets that could be adapted to Arab countries and tackling issues of food loss and waste. |