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Working Paper on Understanding Yemen's Economy

This working paper, authored by TPP Associate Richard Barltrop, explores how the prevailing picture of Yemen’s economy is incomplete and misleading. Economic estimates ignore between half and two-thirds of the country. Analyses overlook Yemen’s relative strengths in infrastructure, agriculture and remittances, and overestimate the importance of oil and gas. This inaccurate picture of Yemen’s economy, which ignores the political context, has significant consequences.

Yemen Economic Recovery Plan

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The Policy Practice is supporting the Economic Team of the internationally-recognised government in Aden, Yemen, in developing an economic rescue plan for Yemen. The work is being funded by the OECD under the EU-OECD Project on Promoting Economic Resilience in Yemen.

What drives solar energy development?

TPP Director, Neil McCulloch supported work led by Marc Ayoub of the Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut to produce a documentary on the challenges facing solar power development in Lebanon, drawing lessons from Jordan and Yemen. The work was funded by the Natural Resource Governance Institute. The documentary, in Arabic with English sub-titles, was launched on 6 September 2022 and broadcast on Lebanese television.  It can be viewed here.

Yemen Strategic Governance and Corruption Assessment

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Gareth Williams was contracted to undertake a Strategic Governance and Corruption Assessment for the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Yemen. This uses a methodology developed by the Clingendael Institute and Sue Unsworth (Power and Change Analysis) to analyse the root causes of weak governance and local pressures for change. It links this a review of donor strategies for improving governance in Yemen. Through a series of workshops the process aims to inform the preparation of the Embassy's next Multi Annual Strategic Plan.

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