Regional Economic Outlook, April 2011, Middle East and Central Asia
Middle East and Central Asia, April 27, 2011
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- Published: April 27, 2011
- Series: Middle East and Central Asia
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781616350642.086
Summary overview
- Publication date: April 27, 2011
- Scope: In-depth look at the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAP) region, and the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA)
- Structure: Four chapters covering MENAP oil exporters, MENAP oil importers, policy challenges facing MENAP, and sustaining the recovery in the CCA countries
- Key contextual developments for the MENAP outlook: social and political unrest, and the surge in global fuel and food prices, resulting in unusually large near-term uncertainties
- CCA outcome: growth in the CCA countries was higher than expected
MENAP region — developments and risks
- Two developments that mark the MENAP outlook:
- Social and political unrest
- Surge in global fuel and food prices
- Consequence: unusually large uncertainties in the near-term economic outlook for MENAP
CCA region — developments and priorities
- Growth: higher than expected in the CCA countries
- Key objectives for all CCA countries:
- Job creation
- Poverty reduction
Policy challenges (as identified)
- For CCA countries:
- Rising inflation
- Heightened social pressures to spend
- Poor quality of bank portfolios
- For MENAP (implied by chapter themes): managing effects of unrest and higher global fuel and food prices (uncertainty in near-term outlook)
Subject tags and keywords (as listed)
- Subject: Commodities, Expenditure, Fuel prices, Inflation, International trade, Oil, Oil exports, Oil prices, Prices, Social assistance spending
- Keywords: CCA country, Central Asia, country, East Africa, economy, Fuel prices, GCC country, Global, headline inflation, Inflation, inflation expectation, Maghreb, MENAP country, Middle East, North Africa, Oil, oil exporter, Oil exports, Oil prices, price, price subsidy, REO, Social assistance spending, upside risk
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- Regional Economic Outlook: Middle East and Central Asia - April 2011
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