Economy & Finance

Rural Vulnerability, Employment and Social Safety Programmes in Egypt: How Far Could State Initiatives Go?

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
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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

Impulsar las CVR en el Norte de África para hacer frente a la crisis global

A pesar de que se dan las bases de un mercado integrado dinámico, el comercio intraempresarial está lejos de lograr su nivel óptimo y de explotar el potencial de las cadenas de valor regionales.

 22 November 2022

Perturbaciones temporales frente a perturbaciones permanentes

A diferencia de lo ocurrido con la Covid-19, la guerra en Ucrania obligará a las empresas a tomar medidas que repercutirán de forma permanente en las cadenas de valor mundiales.

 17 November 2022

Relanzar la integración Euromediterránea en tiempos de crisis

La crisis actual debería servir de punto de partida para el relanzamiento de una zona euromediterránea más integrada por medio de los intercambios comerciales y las inversiones.

 17 November 2022

Brain Drain in South Mediterranean Countries

Graduate unemployment is persistent in the countries of the South. Bridges are being put in place to fill the gap in the North while reducing the tensions on the labour market in the South.

 17 October 2022

Formalizing the Informal Sector: a Fundamental Policy for the Economic Stability of the MENA Region

This article discusses the role that the informal sector plays in the countries of the MENA Region, its causes and its consequences.

 17 October 2022

Global Value Chains in the Spotlight of Economic Recovery

The author presents how global value chains work, and looks at the developments that can be expected as a result of the Covid-19 crisis and in relation to environmental and social concerns

 14 October 2022

Job Creation, Innovation and Sustainability in the Arab Countries in the Southern Mediterranean: Will this Time Be Different?

This article focuses on the case of youth and women in the labour market, and on the interplay between political consideration and economic outcomes from the perspective of innovation, growth, employment creation and sustainability.

 6 October 2022

Youth, Women and Employment in the Mediterranean Region: Continuity and Change

The article discusses the women and youth labour trends and how this year's UfM ministerial conference respond to them in terms of policy making and implementation.

 28 July 2022

Egypt: Economic Ruin Threatens Stability

The article analyses how Egypt is contending with the most powerful of economic shocks, as the world concurrently absorbs similar challenges, which only add to exacerbating Egypt’s domestic situation.

 21 July 2022

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

Llueve sobre mojado: la política de crisis económica turca

Turquía atraviesa una crisis múltiple de gobernanza, cuya salida es dudosa a raíz de la incertidumbre nacional –elecciones en 2023– e internacional como consecuencia de la invasión rusa en Ucrania.

 12 April 2022