Governments across the Middle East and North Africa have taken increasingly draconian steps over the past couple of weeks to contain the coronavirus outbreak and, as a result, there will be much more economic damage than we had previously thought. We now expect the region as a whole to contract by around 1.7% this year, which would mark the worst performance since the early 1980s.
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