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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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The Digital Economy in Mediterranean Countries: Socioeconomic Challenges and Convergence Potential

After a stage of quick development that had the Mediterranean countries go from the low-income to the middle-income bracket, they entered a long period of growth insufficient for moving towards a significant rise in average per capita income.

 29 August 2019

La Ruta de la Seda Marítima se hace grande en el Mediterráneo

La conquista del Mediterráneo es la pieza clave de la estrategia política y comercial de China para posicionarse como potencia global.

 30 July 2019

La economía política de la crisis argelina

El poco peso de las demandas económicas refleja que el país vive una crisis no tanto del flujo de renta, sino del sistema de distribución que se creó para asegurar el poder.

 30 April 2019

Fuga de médicos en los países del Magreb central: razones e impacto

Cerca de una cuarta parte del capital humano médico ya se ha fugado, lo que genera un déficit significativo, tanto en términos cuantitativos como cualitativos.

 30 April 2019

Poverty and Inequalities Continue to Plague Much of the Arab Region

The Arab region is undergoing its most difficult and tumultuous moment since the birth of the modern Arab state system a century ago.

 4 April 2019

The Road Towards Integration: Transport and Logistics in the Western Mediterranean

This thematic seminar aims to initiate an in-depth debate on the obstacles that have prevented a completion of an integration of the countries of the 5 + 5 area.

 10 December 2018

Economic Policies, Trade Integration and Sustainable Job Creation

The central banks of eight Western Mediterranean countries discuss in Tunisia how to promote economic development in the region.

 16 November 2018

Promoting Socioeconomic Development in the MENA Region

The Center for Strategic Studies of the Near East South Asia (NESA) as part of its continuing series of sub-regional working groups of the Strategic Studies Network (SSN) and in partnership with the IEMed holds its fourth NESA-IEMed workshop.

 14 October 2018

Economic Integration And Co-Development: Recipes For Shared Progress In The Mediterranean Region

The UfM builds on the legacy of the Barcelona Process. Nevertheless, its first steps were hindered by a particularly unstable backdrop: poverty, unemployment and missing integration still remain among the main challenges to be faced.

 4 October 2018

Technological Innovation: Growth without Occupation. An Overview on MENA Countries

For developing countries, automation may result mainly in the substitution of workers, while for developed countries, the worker substitution effect could be offset by the so-called capitalization effect.

 25 September 2018

The Recovery from Crisis in Southern European Countries: Labour Markets and Job Quality

After almost 10 years of declining and then stagnating (at very low) growth rates, the economic forecasts for Europe are currently looking more positive, and several headline labour market indicators are also pointing in the right direction.

 25 September 2018

The Economic Impacts of the New Suez Canal

The Suez Canal has been considered, since its establishment in 1869, as the most important artery and waterway for world trade between East and West. It is the most important waterway for moving petroleum between the production sources and consumptio...

 18 September 2018