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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Big Tech and Digital Taxation Reforms in the EU and MENA

Digital taxation has gained attention on the international agenda, especially after major technology companies saw profits surge during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.

 1 August 2021

Planning the Future of the EU Trust Fund for Africa

Tunisia will go bankrupt this summer if it fails to negotiate a bailout with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

 1 August 2021

Will Tunisia’s Ship of State Sink or Sail?

Tunisia will go bankrupt this summer if it fails to negotiate a bailout with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

 1 August 2021

Bridging the Mediterranean for an Enlarged, Comprehensive and Equitable Integration between the EU and its Southern Neighbours

The European Union cooperation treaties with the Southern Mediterranean Countries have grown in successive layers to become a comprehensive corpus comprising integration pacts in security, economy, environment and culture.

 30 June 2021

Global Value Chains in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Opportunities to Increase Euro-Mediterranean Integration

The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected all economic sectors with many services facing particularly large turnover losses.

 30 June 2021

Digital Transformation in the Southern Neighbourhood

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, what with the lockdowns and travel bans, has manifested in no uncertain terms the significance of digitalisation processes.

 29 June 2021

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

La región MENA pos-Covid: de la transformación digital a la transformación a través de lo digital

La conectividad universal es un elemento clave tanto de la recuperación tras la Covid-19, como de la realización de proyectos de desarrollo más globales.

 30 April 2021

Consecuencias de la Covid-19: una lección para repensar la sostenibilidad de las finanzas públicas

Los efectos de la Covid en la región han sido asimétricos: las tasas de crecimiento estimadas para 2020 fluctúan entre el 3,5% de Egipto y el -7% de Marruecos y Túnez.

 30 April 2021

Workers’ Remittances and Economic Growth in MENA Countries: The Role of Financial Development

Migrant remittances play an important role in stimulating economic development and contribute to raising financing as one of the sustainable development goals. Indeed, these funds enhance economic activity in general.

 5 October 2020

Demographic Challenges in the Mediterranean

Regional economic differences have increased during the last two centuries. Today, there are strong inequalities in the region, with a clear distinction between North and South.

 20 September 2020

The Chinese Belt and Road Project in the Middle East and North Africa

The Middle East and North Africa region has been of growing importance to Beijing for the past two decades. This has been predominantly due to China’s need to ensure its energy security.

 18 September 2020