Yemen Socio-Economic Update

Yemen Socio-Economic Update - September 2016

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An LCPS-NRGI Course by the MENA Natural Resource Governance Hub.The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) have teamed up to establish a policy...

Saudi Coalition Airstrikes Target Civilian Factories in Yemen

Saudi Arabia-led coalition airstrikes have unlawfully hit numerous factories, warehouses, and other civilian economic structures in Yemen, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. In the...

Inequality, Uprisings, and Conflict in the Arab World

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) represents a puzzle. The region had been making steady progress in terms of the World Bank’s twin goals of eliminating extreme poverty and boosting shared prosp...

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.

Priorities for Private Sector Recovery in Yemen: Reforming the Business and...

The business and investment climate for private sector actors in Yemen has long been challenging.

The future of Yemeni Rial

Since the country’s uprising in 2011, Yemen has been embroiled in constant political turmoil that has bred intense economic unrest. Increasing brazenness seen in attacks launched by Al-Qaeda in the ...

Yemen Economy Profile 2016

Yemen is a low-income country that faces difficult long-term challenges to stabilizing and growing its economy, and the current conflict has only exacerbated those issues. The ongoing war has halted ...

Yemen reform plan still broadly in line with IMF loan terms: Lagarde...

The Yemeni government's deal with Houthi rebels is broadly in line with conditions of a loan provided by the International Monetary Fund, despite the rollback of some subsidy cuts, IMF managing direct...

WFP Launches Food Voucher Programme For Families In Yemen

March 16th, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) began distributing food vouchers to assist close to 120,000 people living in Sana’a city with plans to reach one million people across Yemen i...

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 - September 2016