
THE NEED TO REFORM THE PUBLIC SECTOR WAGE BILL
Yemen’s bloated public sector employment was a strain on the state budget prior to the conflict, accounting for an average of 32 percent...

بناة السلام المحليين في تعز يداً بيد في مسيرة طويلة نحو السلام
اجتمعت قيادات من المجتمع المدني والقطاع الخاص هذا الشهر في عمان-الأردن لعقد ورشة عمل حول بناء السلام على المستوى المحلي في تعز سعياً منهم...

On long march toward peace in Taiz, local peacebuilders join hands
Yemeni civil society and private sector leaders gathered in Amman this month for a workshop on grassroots peacebuilding in Taiz, seeking...

REFORMING THE BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT CLIMATE
The business and investment climate for private sector actors in Yemen has long been challenging. The current conflict has expanded and...

TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT IN POST-CONFLICT YEMEN
The current UN-sponsored peace process is limited to the internationally recognized Yemeni government and the armed Houthi movement, and...

THE REPERCUSSIONS OF WAR ON WOMEN IN THE YEMENI WORKFORCE
Yemen has one of the lowest female labor force participation rates in the world. The conflict-driven economic collapse has devastated...

The Yemen Trend - May 2019 Issue
Throughout May attention remained on Hodeidah, where UN monitors have been seeking to implement the Hodeidah Agreement reached during the...

THE ESSENTIAL ROLE OF REMITTANCES IN MITIGATING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
Scarce opportunities to earn a viable livelihood in Yemen have, for decades, driven hundreds of thousands of Yemenis abroad in search of...

The Yemen Trend - March and April 2019 Issue
With a renewed surge in suspected cholera cases and several mass population displacements away from areas of concentrated fighting,...

RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE DEVELOPMENT CHAMPIONS
INTRODUCTION The conflict in Yemen has created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world; this has been exacerbated by the devastation...