We hold below-consensus growth forecasts for the Gulf States, where oil output cuts and renewed fiscal austerity will result in a sharp slowdown. We are, by contrast, relatively optimistic about the prospects for Egypt, as well as Morocco, where growth is likely to pick up in 2019. As a whole, we think that regional GDP growth will ease from 2.8% last year to 2.5% this year.
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