Foreword

Abstract

It is my pleasure to introduce this new thematic volume of International Development Policy (IDP). The journal’s seventh annual issue focuses exclusively, and for the first time, on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), a region beset by armed conflict, social and economic turmoil and set against the backdrop of lower oil prices and political uncertainty. The volume explores the economic implications of democratic transition efforts in the region since the start of the so-called Arab Spr...