TAG: Economy
Jordan has been a bastion of stability in an otherwise volatile region. It largely escaped the Arab Spring and, despite economic difficulties, has enacted reforms to meet IMF assistance requirements.
As the rhetoric from the US White House swerves from combative to compromise and back again, uncertainty in the global trading environment is creating potential pitfalls for emerging markets the world over. In the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), which counts China as its largest trading partner, member states watch with trepidation as President Donald Trump ramps up threats of levies on nearly all Chinese products shipped to the US.
After more than a decade of political turmoil, Côte d’Ivoire has emerged as one of the world’s best-performing economies, boasting average annual GDP growth of 9.3% between 2011 and 2016, driven primarily by strong investment in sectors such as construction, energy and ICT.