The global economy is significantly concentrated, with just three regions—North America, East Asia, and Europe—accounting for ...

The Fertile Crescent, often referred to as “the cradle of civilization,” is the crescent-shaped region in Western Asia and North Africa that spans the modern-day countries of Iraq, Turkey, Syria, ...

Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from ...

Here are the latest bi-annual regional economic updates to explore the macro development trends in Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the ...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region covers the enormous area extending from the Atlantic coast of Africa to the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan in Central Asia and from the ...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA ... percent contraction in real GDP. In the West Bank, the economy also contracted by 23 percent. The report underscores how the conflict has affected the rest ...

But it also highlights the limits of such an approach, the difficulties the continent faces, and some fundamental issues that must be resolved to promote resilience in the region and foster ...

Archaeological data shed light on the transition of ancient North African populations from hunter-gatherers to producers, between 20,000 and 4,000 years ago. Following the sequencing of a genome in ...

QBS Technology Group has completed the acquisition of an Istanbul-based enterprise software distributor to bolster its presence in the META (Middle East, Turkey and Africa) region ...

Research on the Middle East and North Africa region focuses on changes to politics and society, economics, and security issues. The Middle East and North Africa is a region of significant geopolitical ...