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Morocco’s investment focus may shift

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MOROCCO

In July, a revised finance law was issued for 2020, as the impacts of policy responses to the pandemic rendered the original budget assumptions obsolete.

Turkey may be edging towards capital controls

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TURKEY

A score below 100 indicates a pessimistic outlook -- the index has not exceeded 100 since March 2018. Increasingly frequent and heavy-handed interventions by the Turkish Central…

Maghreb leaders face a growing challenge from unions

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NORTH AFRICA

Since President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s ouster in April, the military-dominated interim authorities have sought to shore up their own position, including by managing the…

Lebanon will struggle to turn loans into prosperity

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LEBANON

Lebanon won aid pledges exceeding eleven billion dollars on April 6 during a conference in Paris, named CEDRE, that aimed to rally international support for a massive investment…

Turkey is facing a severe balance of payments crisis

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TURKEY

The dramatic fall in the lira is turning a currency crisis into a full-blown debt and liquidity crisis. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is taking an increasingly defiant stand…

Prospects for North Africa to end-2020

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PROSPECTS H2 2020

North Africa prospects H2 2020.

Low monetary credibility keeps strain on Turkish lira

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TURKEY

The recovery from the record low of 4.93 on May 23 may reflect officials’ efforts to counteract President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s disastrous interventions in Turkey’s economic…

Economic goals of Dubai and Abu Dhabi will diverge

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Despite its promotion of an innovation ecosystem to attract start-ups, Abu Dhabi has overall made little progress in addressing the impact of the clean-energy transition on…

Manama will struggle to vary its investor offering

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BAHRAIN

The Economic Development Board (EDB), the country’s investment promotion agency, announced in March that its ‘golden licence’ scheme of incentives for local and foreign investors…

Hydrocarbons wealth will entrench Libya divisions

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LIBYA

The NOC-ENI agreement follows on from an earlier memorandum of understanding (MoU) which Turkey signed with the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) in October. This…