A 2019 briefing from World Economic Forum, “The Middle East and North Africa Risks Landscape” finds top risks in the MENA region are mostly governance-driven rather than exogenous. Among the top ten are: energy price shock, unemployment or underemployment, terrorist attacks, failure of regional and global governance and fiscal crises. The report goes on to identify most cited risks per country, for example in Iran, Qatar and UAE the water crisis, energy price shock and cyber-attacks top the list respectively.

Read the full briefing from here.