市场经济对中东和北非来说是一件相对较新的事物，直到20实际80年代国家主导的经济增长因为效率低下（以及由此产生的债务）而垮台后才出现。
Market economies are relatively new to the Middle East and North Africa, having arisen only after the 1980s, when the model of state-directed economic growth collapsed under the weight of its inefficiencies (and resulting debt).