IFI Dashboard · MENA
The twin engines: how the IMF & World Bank steer the region
One picture of both institutions' policy grip on the Middle East & North Africa — the structural conditions, the prior actions, and the money behind them (2004–2024).
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Two searchable databases sit behind this dashboard — dig into the individual conditions and prior actions yourself.
IMF Conditions Explorer
All 12,015 IMF structural conditions — 767 across MENA. Filter by country, year, type and economic category. English & Arabic.
Open the IMF explorer →World Bank Prior Actions Explorer
All 11,628 World Bank prior actions — 828 across MENA. Filter by region, country, sector and theme.
Open the World Bank explorer →By the numbers
Two engines, one region
These count the policy conditions the two institutions attached to their loans across MENA — not debt owed.
The data
Anatomy of the grip
Conditions imposed over time
Annual count of IMF structural conditions and World Bank prior actions across MENA.
Who bears the conditions
By country — note how the two institutions divide the region between them.
Policy-based lending behind the conditions
Development Policy Financing commitments, US$M per fiscal year — the budget-support loans these prior actions ride on. This is the conditionality instrument only; total World Bank lending to the region (mostly investment projects) is far larger.
What the World Bank targets
Prior actions by policy theme (MENA).
What the IMF targets
Conditions by economic category (MENA).
What the data shows
A divided region
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Sources & citation
Sources: International Monetary Fund, Monitoring of Fund Arrangements (MONA) Database, imf.org/mona; and World Bank, Development Policy Financing Prior Actions Database (DPAD, FY24), worldbank.org. Both datasets curated, simplified, and analysed by Shady Hassan. MENA scope follows each institution's own regional classification, which differ slightly (e.g. the IMF counts Mauritania in MENA; the World Bank counts it under Africa).
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