YEMEN

 

Yemen’s 2012 Budget Raises Social Spending To Offset 2011’s Economic Decline

 

The Yemeni government has unveiled a record budget for 2012 aimed at stimulating the economy, which has shrunk as a result of the political turmoil in the country last year. After the Arab Spring, the political climate in Yemen is far from stable, with a rise in the power of al-Qa'ida militants across the county and the Houthi-Salafi confrontation still...