Yemen Socio-Economic Update

Yemen Socio-Economic Update - August 2016

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Various Topics

Fighting Corruption to Better Manage Lebanon’s Petroleum Wealth

Often when policy-making in Lebanon gets bogged down due to disagreements, the next thing one hears is that corruption has once more reared its ugly head. Chances are the same will happen now since t...

IMF declares suspension of Yemen loan amid Saudi airstrikes

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced its indefinite suspension of a loan to Yemen, citing a “host of uncertainties” after Saudi Arabia’s military aggression against the country.

Fundamentals of Oil and Gas Governance

The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) have teamed up to establish a policy hub that aims to support and build the capacities of civil soci...

NRC: Millions Of Yemenis will go hungry in 2017

After a 2016 that was disastrous for civilians, war-ravaged Yemen will see an additional 2.5 million people go without enough to eat in 2017 if the current downward spiral is allowed to continue, the...

Government defines eight challenges to overcome

The government has defined eight prime and exceptional challenges facing Yemen currently and efforts needed to overcome them via its general program.

MENA Knowledge Bulletin - October 2015

Recent Studies Egypt: Macro stability, energy subsidy reform and governance are critical for shared prosperity The study documents Egypt’s progress toward, and identifies reform priorities for,...

Yemen Food Inflation 2010-2016

Cost of food in Yemen increased 3.54 percent in November of 2014 over the same month in the previous year. Food Inflation in Yemen averaged 10.26 percent from 2010 until 2014, reaching an all time hig...

Yemen's EITI membership suspended due to failing to meet deadline for publishing...

The EITI Board suspended Yemen on 19 March February 2014

$ 4 Million Of Electricity Losses In Sana’a

Counting damages committee reports clarified that the electricity had a huge losses in Sana’a district toped to $ 4 million including technical and financial revenues losses during the lasted long-y...

YER Exchange rate

Currency	Bid	ASK
US Dollar	250	250.5
British Pound	326.9	327.55
Euro	293.56	294.15
Saudi Rial	66.67	66.8

Source: Central Bank of Yemen
September 24, 2018

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Yemen Socio-Economic Update - August 2016