Novel coronavirus hurts the Middle East and North Africa through many channels
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About the authors
Rabah Arezki is the Chief Economist for Middle East and North Africa Region at the
World Bank and a senior fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of
Government.Previously, he was the Chief of the Commodities Unit in the Research
Department at the International Monetary Fund and a non-resident fellow at the
Brookings Institution. He is also an external research associate at the University of
Oxford, research fellow at the CESifo and the Economic Research Forum, and a
resource person for the African Economic Research Consortium.
Mr. Arezki is the author and co-author of numerous academic journal publications
and other publications, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Economic
Journal, the European Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics,
the Journal of Development Economics and Economic Policy. Mr. Arezki’s research
covers a wide array of topics energy and commodities markets, the macro-development
resource rich countries, the economics of the Middle East and Africa, institutions,
human capital, innovation and economic growth. He received his M.S. from the Ecole
Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique in Paris, M.A. from the
University of Paris-1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and Ph.D. in economics from the European
University Institute.