Much attention has been paid to the direct impact of the war in Yemen on civilians through street fighting, artillery shelling, and airstrikes. However, the war – the latest in a succession of conflicts in Yemen – has also had a devastating effect on the economy in what was already the Arab world’s poorest country, pushing millions of Yemenis to the brink of a humanitarian disaster.

AGSIW hosted a roundtable discussion on the economic costs of the conflict in Yemen. The discussion focused on two AGSIW publications: “Bickering While Yemen Burns: Poverty, War, and Political Indifference,” by Peter Salisbury, senior research fellow at Chatham House, and AGSIW Senior Resident Scholar Karen E. Young’s “War at Any Price: Domestic and Regional Economic Consequences of Yemen’s Civil War.”