Middle East and North Africa Quarterly Economic Brief, July 2013 : Growth Slowdown Extends into 2013

While the focus has been on the recent change in government in Egypt, five countries in the Middle East and North Africa Region, including Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan and Iran are facing a growth slowdown, rising fiscal deficits and debt, and high unemployment and inflation. Continued political...

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Main Authors:	Devarajan, Shantayanan, Mottaghi, Lili
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Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2014
Subjects:	Arab Spring Arab transition countries development economics economic policy growth investment poverty volatility global growth
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spelling	okr-10986-188172021-04-23T14:03:49Z Middle East and North Africa Quarterly Economic Brief, July 2013 : Growth Slowdown Extends into 2013 Devarajan, Shantayanan Mottaghi, Lili Arab Spring Arab transition countries development economics economic policy growth investment poverty volatility global growth While the focus has been on the recent change in government in Egypt, five countries in the Middle East and North Africa Region, including Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan and Iran are facing a growth slowdown, rising fiscal deficits and debt, and high unemployment and inflation. Continued political turmoil in Egypt and spillovers from the civil war in Syria to Jordan and Lebanon threaten to make their economic situation worse. While easing political tensions in Tunisia and post-election improvements in Iran’s international relations may help these countries, the overall macroeconomic outlook in all five countries for the rest of 2013 is grim. 2014-06-30T15:51:49Z 2014-06-30T15:51:49Z 2013-07 978-1-4648-0396-3 10.1596/978-1-4648-0396-3 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18817 en_US MENA Quarterly Economic Brief; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication Middle East and North Africa North Africa Middle East
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description	While the focus has been on the recent change in government in Egypt, five countries in the Middle East and North Africa Region, including Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan and Iran are facing a growth slowdown, rising fiscal deficits and debt, and high unemployment and inflation. Continued political turmoil in Egypt and spillovers from the civil war in Syria to Jordan and Lebanon threaten to make their economic situation worse. While easing political tensions in Tunisia and post-election improvements in Iran’s international relations may help these countries, the overall macroeconomic outlook in all five countries for the rest of 2013 is grim.
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title	Middle East and North Africa Quarterly Economic Brief, July 2013 : Growth Slowdown Extends into 2013
title_short	Middle East and North Africa Quarterly Economic Brief, July 2013 : Growth Slowdown Extends into 2013
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Middle East and North Africa Quarterly Economic Brief, July 2013 : Growth Slowdown Extends into 2013

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