Middle East and North Africa Quarterly Economic Brief, January 2014 : Growth Slowdown Heightens the Need for Reforms

Ongoing regional tensions, together with a challenging (albeit slightly improving) external environment, 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...

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Main Authors: Devarajan, Shantayanan, Mottaghi, Lili
Language:en_US
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18818