The popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have inspired widespread dissent across the Middle East and left leaders desperately seeking to calm unrest in their own countries. Many regimes have increased subsidies and wages, with some even giving cash handouts. And they have coupled economic measures with political ones: promises to lift emergency rule in Algeria, suspension of proposed constitutional amendments that would extend the president's term inYemen, a call for new Palestinian elections, and the appointment of a new prime minister in Jordan.
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