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- Paper
Rural Vulnerability, Employment and Social Safety Programmes in Egypt: How Far Could State Initiatives Go?
This paper aims to assess the Haya Karima initiative, launched by the Egyptian government in 2019 to target rural communities to achieve inclusive development and eliminate poverty.
4 April 2023
- Paper
E-Commerce and the Digital Economy in Morocco, a Factor of Social Inclusivity and Employment: Context, Approach and Limits
TIn this paper, Youssef Tobi aims to interview dropshippers and other e-commerce professionals to establish the link between the rise of digital jobs and social inclusivity.
28 February 2023
- Paper
Financial Inclusion and Hurdles to Funding Tunisian Female Entrepreneurs
This paper addresses gender self-selection amongst Tunisian women entrepreneurs in the context of financial inclusion of Tunisian women in the economy.
14 February 2023
- Policy Study
Towards Enhanced Connectivity and Sustainability in the Mediterranean Transport and Logistics Sector. Trends in Trade, Maritime Transport, and Sustainability
This Policy Study coordinated by CETMO and the IEMed shows the state and trends of transport and logistics in the Mediterranean at a time of multiple changes and offers interesting proposals to take advantage of the existing opportunities
6 February 2023
- Policy Study
Assessing the Job Creation Potential of the Social Economy in the MENA Region
The study comprises four different sections that tackle different aspects of the job creation potential of the social economy.
7 July 2022
- Report
The Western Mediterranean Transport and Logistics Sector in the Post-Covid-19 Era: Seizing New Opportunities, Accelerating Transitions
The impacts of the COVID-19 and the future of transport and logistics through multisectoral and multidisciplinary lenses.
31 March 2022
- Paper
Building Resilience Blocks: How to Improve the Quality of Work for the Egyptian Construction Precariat?
This paper explores how the notion of precarity applies to informal construction workers in Egypt. It also assesses the government’s intervention during the pandemic regarding informal irregular workers.
3 February 2022
- Paper
Youth unemployment in the South of the Mediterranean: A chronic challenge to development and stability
The paper aims to provide policy recommendations to address this chronic problem in the region and focuses mainly on Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.
28 January 2022
- Report
Innovation ecosystems and start-ups in the Mediterranean as a means of recovering from the COVID-19 crisis
In the absence of further joint migration instruments at a European level, the burden of managing the migrant emergency falls primarily on local and regional authorities of the European countries in particular in the south of the EU.
23 November 2021
- Report
Central Banks at the Frontline of the COVID-19 crisis: Weathering the Storm, Spurring the Recovery. A View from the Mediterranean Countries
With the aim to foster a comprehensive dialogue on the economic and financial situation of the Mediterranean region, this conference allowed to take an important step in the ambition to strengthen cooperation ties among Mediterranean central banks.
1 September 2021
- Policy Study
Mediterranean Transport and Logistics in a Post-Covid-19 Era: Prospects and Opportunities
This publication is the outcome of the work of experts from different professional backgrounds and Euro-Mediterranean countries to discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 and the future of transport and logistics.
1 September 2021
- Policy Study
Post-Covid-19 EU-Southern Neighbourhood Trade Relations
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, which disturbed economic and social lives all over the globe, threatened to exacerbate the existing problems by virtue of disturbing production of and trade in food products.
19 May 2021