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COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges and Opportunities: The Case of Jordan

COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges and Opportunities: The Case of Jordan

Jordan has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis. The efforts to curb its spread have created social and economic unrest. The Jordanian government ordered a lockdown to cushion the impact on the healthcare system.

 22 June 2020
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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

VI Conference of the Governors of Mediterranean Central Banks. Central Banks at the Frontline of the COVID-19 Crisis: Weathering the Storm, Spurring the Recovery. A View from the Mediterranean Countries

This conference is the sixth edition of a joint initiative that aims at further strengthening links between Central Banks from the Mediterranean region.

 28 June 2021

Advancing Youth Financial Inclusion to Boost Job Creation and Growth in the Mediterranean Region

MED Confederation is dedicating a second webinar to the topic of financial inclusion, focusing on youth as an under-served segment, yet crucial for the socioeconomic development of the countries of the region.

 10 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

Economic Integration and Cooperation in the Mediterranean

The conference, introduced by Rym Ayadi founder and president of the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA), presents the Blue Transition Scenario project, aims to promote the narratives of TRIS development.

 25 March 2021

Financial Inclusion in a Post-COVID-19 Mediterranean: Challenges and Opportunities

The session aims to address the challenges that this crisis has created for the financial inclusion of people and companies, as well as the opportunities highlighted by the pandemic to reduce financial exclusion in the Mediterranean.

 9 December 2020