Growth slowdown heightens the need for reforms (English)

This brief concerns the ongoing regional tensions, together with a challenging (albeit slightly improving) external environment, that have hit the economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region hard. Economic growth is slowing, fiscal buffers are depleting, unemployment is rising, and inflation is mounting in seven of the region's most vulnerable economies in Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen and Libya. Short-term policy actions...

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Devarajan,Shantayanan;

Mottaghi,Lili;
Document Date
2014/01/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
86489
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Middle East and North Africa,
Region
Middle East and North Africa,
Disclosure Date
2014/04/04
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Growth slowdown heightens the need for reforms
Keywords
unemployment rate

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Devarajan,Shantayanan; Mottaghi,Lili.

Growth slowdown heightens the need for reforms (English). MENA quarterly economic brief|issue no. 2 Washington DC ; World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/209221468275714171

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