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If the price of oil goes up, the appetite for social and economic reform will go down: IMF

Changes abound in the Middle East and North Africa, but the pace of economic and social reforms needs to increase, according to one senior voice at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Global growth will be 3.6 percent for the fiscal year of 2017, with this falling to 2.6 percent for the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan (MENAP) region, according to the IMF’s 2017 Regional Economic Outlook for the Middle East and Central Asia report out Tuesday.

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