An Economic Outlook For The Middle East

Courtesy Of "Al-Jazeera"

The Middle East and North Africa are going through unprecedented political and social change. But also economic change. Until late 2010 the region was actually on track for a recovery from the global financial crisis. Now the outlook is - like everything else - full of uncertainty. We look at a major regional report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to find out what the economic future looks like in times uncertainty.

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