The report visualizes the current social contract in MENA and provides evidence as why it needs to be renewed. All MENA countries started with the same “social contract” where the state provided jobs, free health and education, and subsidized food and fuel with no voice and accountability. While the social contract delivered good results in increasing enrollment rates, improving basic health, and reducing extreme poverty, it stopped working in the 2000s. Now the region is in turmoil and fragility has become the new reality for MENA. There is a need for a new social contract.
