The outbreak of the coronavirus in the Middle East and North Africa has developed rapidly over the past month and, given this, most of the backwards-looking figures released over this period are likely to tell us little about the current state of economies in the region. This Chart Book will, instead,focus on more timely measures of activity to give us a better sense of the immediate economic fallout for the region, while also highlighting how it may ignite underlying economic vulnerabilities.
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