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Morocco: Government expects 3.7% growth in 2024

The Moroccan government has released its macroeconomic forecasts for 2024, expecting a growth rate of 3.7% while revising downwards its 2023 growth forecast to 3.4% instead of 4%, due partly to drought and inflation. In a presentation at the Moroccan parliament, minister in charge of the budget Fouzi Lekjaa said the forecast will be taken […]

Egypt: BP to increase production by 100% with $12bn investment

Country Manager Hesham Mekawi of British Petroleum (BP) Egypt has stated that the company will invest more than $12 billion in the country before the end of 2020 to unlock the country’s oil and gas potential. He was speaking at an energy conference in Alexandria. Egypt has been undergoing gas shortages and the government was […]

Turkey as a ‘Role Model’ in the MENA Region after the Arab Spring

The Arab revolutions of 2011 have brought into immediate focus the following question related to Turkey’s foreign policy: ‘Can Turkey’s economic and political model become a reference-point for the region’s post-autocratic societies, similar to the EU for east-central Europe after 1989?’. Indeed, many political observers see the revolutions in the Arab countries as a chance […]