On Friday evening in Bahrain's restaurant district, Adliya, scores of people spill out from crowded cafés onto roads packed with cars unable to find spaces to park. Stability has returned to Bahrain, but the unrest that swept through the country in February and March and the ensuing crackdown on anti-government protesters and opposition figures has come at a hefty price.
Bahrain's economy, which grew at 4.5 per cent last year, is expected to suffer a significant blow in 2011, as weeks of demonstrations, the imposition of martial law and the arrival of troops from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, take their toll.
Though the government is still plumping for a relatively healthy economic growth this year, economists are more circumspect.
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