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ual income to start a firm in Syria and Yemen (assuming anyone would want to), just over twice the average globally. In a few Arab countries, like Tunisia, some notorious personifications of crony capitalism have fallen foul of political change but the practice has by no means ended. The weakness of

ce that stabilization of inter-Korean relations is a prerequisite for the Six-Party Talks to move forward. Given the vituperative rhetoric that the North has directed toward the Lee Myung-bak administration in recent weeks and North Korea's failure to acknowledge its 2010 provocations against South

, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan. Spratly Islands, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo. Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimb

atemala. Guinea, Guinea- Bissau, Guyana. Haiti. Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq. Ivory Coast (C6te d'Ivoire). Jamaica. Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya. Korea, North. Kyrgyzstan, Laos. Lebanon, Liberia. Libya, Liechtenstein, Macau, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mozambique, Namibia, Na

t few years The past few years haven't been kind to Morocco. Although the country managed to avoid the political upheaval that afflicted Egypt and Tunisia, the economy still weakened. GDP growth has averaged around 3.5% since 2011, substantially below the average of 5.0% seen in the preceding decade

ndeed, a period of much weaker growth there, could weigh on the Moroccan economy. Moreover, there is a risk that political problems in the rest of North 4.A. 11.7 Africa spillover into Morocco. What's more, additional reforms will be needed further down the line to improve the business environment

of youths mobilizing in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand an end to Egypt's dreary police state. We watched transfixed as a movement first ignited in Tunisia spread from one part of Egypt to another, and then from country to country EFTA_R1_02204481 EFTA02720825 across the region. Before it was over,

the Arab spring is to its south, an ascendant Islamist and neo-Ottoman Turkey are to the east, and the ethnic powder keg in the Balkans lie to the North, capped by EFTA_R1_02204492 EFTA02720836 understandably unsympathetic European Union creditors. Only Greece's NATO membership-a euphemism for an

excluded from decision-making. Despite the new freedoms championed by the revolutionaries, women continue to be regarded as subordinate to men. In Tunisia, a mass protest called for all women to be veiled, which led to unveiled female professors being hounded off campuses. Mobs shouted at Tunisian wom

g acronym PIGS, used to refer to the troubled economies of Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain, to the tired medical analogies of an infection of the North by the contagious South. Germans tell the Greeks how to live; the Greeks reply by calling them Nazis. This is not just the result of economic wear

ic and social inequalities that prevailed between North and South . . . and the conflicts and tensions th

oreign crises that seemed so much out of its control. At first, Hillary looked clairvoyant: in January, when the street protests were still small in Tunisia, she lectured decrepit dictatorial HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024975 --- PAGE BREAK --- [9 regimes at a conference in Qatar that “the region’s foundations a