Yemen Market Watch Report

KEY HIGHLIGHTS Food markets have been generally stablethroughoutMay 2019 compared to the previous month. However, the underlying risks of supply side shocks warn of further depreciation of the Yemeni riyal in 2019 and a pickup in consumer…

Highlights • The Yemeni Riyal depreciated in the last week of February 2019 relative to the US$ dollar by 6 percent when compared to January 2019. Against the pre-crisis period, the USD gained 165 percent compared to the YER. • In…

Highlights • The Yemeni Riyal depreciated in the last week of January 2019 by 3% when compared to December 2019. The current value is much weaker having lost 148% of its purchasing power when compared with the pre-crisis period. • The…

Highlights The Yemeni Riyal further weakened in September 2018, and continued to go down sharply in the first two weeks of October 2018, losing over 200% of its precrisis purchasing power. In-country food stocks are estimated at…

Highlights The Yemeni Riyal further weakened in August 2018, and continued to drop sharply in September losing nearly 180% of its pre-crisis purchasing power. In-country food stocks are estimated at 1.4…

Highlights The Yemeni Riyals continued to alarmingly depreciate in July 2018, and lost about 131 % of its precrisis purchasing power. In-country food stock estimated at 1.1 million MT, wheat and rice stock may cover the national…