Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 18

04-May-2009

REGIONAL/ALGERIA/LIBYA

Social And Economic Disparity Potentially A Greater Threat Than Terrorism In North Africa

North African states are failing to implement the economic and political reforms that are needed to confront an underlying fragmentation of society, a phenomenon which may overtake terrorism and criminality as the regions main destabilizing force. This is the finding of a report published by UK-based think tank Chatham House last...