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In addition, according to McKinsey Global Institute report, $12 trillion could be added to global GDP by 2025 if gender equality is advanced, of which $0.6 trillion will be added to the MENA countries’ GDP. Around the world, we have a long way to go. As of November 2018, only 24% of all national parliamentarians were women, a slow increase ...
At the end of 2017, two-thirds – 68% – of all refugees were from just five countries: Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Myanmar and Somalia. UN estimates put the number of newly displaced people in that year at 16.2 million, which equates to around 44,400 people fleeing each day. That total includes 11.8 million people who left home but ...
In the Middle East, a larger youth population has coincided with greater social empowerment. Women often married young and rarely worked outside the home. Now, more girls are attending school and more women are entering the labour force. Couples are waiting longer to marry and are having fewer children.
The regional discussions between Middle East countries after the Biden Administration’s visit have been very progressive. John Kerry returned to the UAE following the Leader’s Summit on Climate in Washington in April, to rally progress ahead of COP26 followed by his latest trip to the Middle East for talks with Saudi ministers, officials ...
One in every three barrels of exported crude petroleum still comes from the Middle East. Yet significant shifts in this sector are transforming the geopolitical equation of oil in the region: The US is not as reliant on the region as it once was, as its shale gas revolution has made it relatively energy independent.
The Middle East and North Africa is the worst off in terms of physical water stress receiving less rainfall than other regions but, yet having fast-growing, densely populated urban centres that require more water. “Immediately the awareness of the issue needs to be heightened and consumption needs to be contained at 150 litres per day.
Oct 28, 2014. Israel once again tops the regional table and Saudi Arabia moves into the top 10 regionally in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap 2014 Report, published today. The report ranks 142 countries on their ability to close the gender gap – making sure women are not held back – in four key areas: health and survival ...
A new report by the World Economic Forum features 6 key findings about the future of jobs and skills in the region. 1. The population is young, growing and increasingly well-educated but underemployed. Currently, young people under the age of 25 constitute nearly half of the region’s population. By 2030, that is projected to increase by more ...
In the Middle East and Central Asia, in any given year since 2000, climate disasters have killed more than 2,600 people and caused $2 billion in damage. According to IMF analysis, climate disasters in the region have also reduced annual economic growth by 1-2 percentage points on a per capita basis. International cooperation is essential to ...
Female genital mutilation hurts economies, says WHO. FGM typically involves the partial or total removal of the external genitalia. Sometimes the vaginal opening is sewn up. The practice is most closely linked to 30 predominantly African countries, but UNICEF said it may be practiced in about 50 countries including in Asia, the Middle East ...