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Yemen Risk Report November 2015
There has been no sign of the resumption of peace talks after the June negotiations collapsed amid physical fights between the two sides. The political system in Yemen is in disarray after the Shia Houthi rebel movement took control of the capital Sa...
Yemen Economic Report November 2015
The Yemeni economy will suffer a deep recession in 2015, contracting by 2.2% according to the April 2015 forecasts by the IMF. The fund’s next round of forecasts issued in October 2015 will indicate how much the outlook has deteriorated.
Jordan Risk Report October 2015
The unexpected slowdown in economic growth in the first quarter of 2015 highlighted that the balance of risks is on the downside. The IMF has pencilled in GDP growth of 4.5% over the two years to 2020 and the economy will benefit from the fall in oil...
Jordan Economic Report October 2015
Jordan has continued to accumulate large volumes of official reserve assets, which reached a total of $16.4bn in June 2015, a 1% increase over the previous 12 months and just short of the all-time high of $16.5bn registered in August 2014. The reserv...
Iraq Economic Report October 2015
The scale of the impact on the Iraqi economy posed by the twin threat of the collapse in world oil prices and the rapid military insurgency by Islamic State (IS) was thrown into sharp focus by the latest assessment by the International Monetary Fund....
Iraq Risk Report October 2015
The ongoing internal political instability that has been present since the formation of the state apparatus after the war to depose Saddam Hussein presents major risks to economic and business stability.
Tunisia Economic Report September 2015
There is growing concern among both financial and business investors over whether the new government will implement much-needed economic reforms. There had been hopes that political progress would support a pick-up in foreign investment and prompt do...