Articles tagged with: International Monetary Fund
It has been more than two years since the people of Egypt rose up and tossed out the government of Hosni Mubarak. In the process, President Obama helped end the old regime by insisting in private that Mubarak step aside to make way for new leadership.
We tend to speak of the events that took place in Egypt during the Arab Spring as a revolution, one with major consequences for Egyptian political life and also for Egypt’s relations with the United States. However, in many regards it is al...
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Tuesday, 24 Jan, 2012
One of the most serious consequences of the 2011 revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa has been the impact of political instability on the regional economy. Egypt has surely felt the fullest force of the blow and now requires a lifeline from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The uprisings that resulted in the ouster of the country’s former president, Hosni Mubarak, also resulted in a 3 percent drop in GDP growth. Foreign Direct Investment, previously a success story compa...
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Tuesday, 8 Nov, 2011
Syria’s economy is starting to feel the pressure of eight months of violence in which an estimated 3000 people have died and thousands more have been injured. A recent Geopol...
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