This report presents the results of a comprehensive Needs Assessment of the Social Economy in the Southern Mediterranean (within the framework of the AECID's Masar al’an Programme).
Agricultural development and food supply represent a central issue and one of the biggest challenges facing the MENA region.
El microcrédito representa una solución menos eficaz para erradicar la pobreza en los países afectados por el paro, que para estimular la creación de empleo.
Le défi le plus immédiat posé à la plupart des pays méditerranéens concerne la création d’emplois. L’accroissement d’emplois ne pourra reposer en très large partie que sur de nombreuses créations de petites et moyennes entreprises.
Today, it can no longer be denied that we are in the midst of a global economic crisis, one that affects the entire planet and is of a scope unseen since the crash of 1929 shook the very foundations of the capitalist world.
The facilitation of transport and trade has recently acquired additional significance in the light of such contemporary developments as globalization.
The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, founded in 1995, proceeded at a slow pace for a decade, with little real integrative efforts. The year 2008 will be marked as a turning point.
Before 1999, in-depth cooperation between European trade unions and the equivalent organisations from Arab regions did not exist. Apart from certain, rather ‘diplomatic’ contacts.
Según la UNCTAD, la zona mediterránea debería sufrir un retroceso de la IED inferior a la tendencia mundial (- 17%), gracias a África del Norte y Egipto.
The recent debate on the “Future of Europe” started around the time of the signature of the Treaty of Lisbon on 13 December 2007.
The year 2008 was an important one for Euro-Mediterranean trade relations. Tariffs were completely dismantled in the first southern Mediterranean country, Tunisia, within the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area.
Turquía intenta diversificar su presencia en el exterior: Siria, Irán, Irak, Egipto y el Golfo, nuevos mercados de referencia, más allá de EE UU y la UE.
El gobierno cuenta con los megaproyectos, encabezados sobre todo por inversores del Golfo, para convertir a Túnez en un centro regional de servicios y negocios.
