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Economic Prospects for the Middle East
Middle East Focus
English - April 12, 2018 11:00 - 19 minutes - 27.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsNews Government middleeast foreignpolicy internationalnews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The Middle East has withstood a series of major economic shocks over the past decade, and growth is slowly coming back. But sustained high unemployment, especially among women and youth, will continue to put strain on the region’s economic prospects. Jihad Azour, director of the Middle East and Central Asia department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), joins host Paul Salem to survey the economic challenges facing the MENA region.