The Economics of the Arab Spring and Its Aftermath
Child Event MultimediaNovember 10, 2015Washington, DC – 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Summary
The Arab uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria over the past five years represent a conundrum. Standard development indicators failed to capture or predict the outburst of popular anger during the so-called Arab Spring of 2011.