{"id":1244,"date":"2017-04-22T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T14:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.economicmedia.net\/EN\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2017-04-22T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T14:29:10","slug":"yemen-is-the-poorest-country-in-the-mena-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/economicmedia.net\/en\/?p=1244","title":{"rendered":"Yemen is the poorest country in the MENA region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is also available in: Arabic<br \/>\nYemen is the poorest country in the MENA region, with an estimated 54.5% of the population living in poverty.<br \/>\nThe escalation of the Houthi insurgency in 2014 and the onset of Saudi Arabian-led coalition airstrikes in March 2015 has compounded an already devastating humanitarian situation, tipping Yemen\u2019s ailing economy into further crisis. In view of the dire security situation and the lack of an effective government counterpart, the World Bank has now closed its central office in Sana\u2019a and suspended its operations in the country until further notice.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankinformationcenter.org\/regions\/mena\/yemen\/\">http:\/\/www.bankinformationcenter.org\/regions\/mena\/yemen\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is also available in: Arabic Yemen is the poorest country in the MENA region, with an estimated 54.5% of the population living in poverty. The escalation of the Houthi insurgency in 2014 and the onset of Saudi Arabian-led coalition airstrikes in March 2015 has compounded an already devastating humanitarian situation, tipping Yemen\u2019s ailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-media-in-mass-communications"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Yemen is the poorest country in the MENA region | Studies &amp; Economic Media Center (SEMC)<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yemen is the poorest country in the MENA region\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/economicmedia.net\/en\/?p=1244\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yemen is the poorest country in the MENA region | Studies &amp; 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