[Interview] Outlook on MENA's Post-COVID Economy
[Report] A Post-Pandemic Growth Strategy for Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries
Sep 29, 2021 / Library
The global pandemic has prompted a re-examination of existing development strategies for growth and development. The countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEMCs) have seen their development trajectories dimmed, and in order to provide for more sustainable and equitable income generation for their populations, a reset of growth...
[Agenda] Perspectives on mobility and migration in the Mediterranean
[Webinar] Perspectives on Mobility and Migration in the Mediterranean
Sep 22, 2021 / Highlight
Context
The health crisis has led to an awareness of the fragility of certain value chains: the excessive splitting of production elements, extreme geographic distance, high concentration on a few suppliers and induced dependencies, etc.
In addition, there are trends already underway that relate to the shortening of value chains,...
Co-Development & Integration
Sep 22, 2021 / Program
Regional context
Before the unexpected, virulent COVID-19 pandemic occurred, studies focusing on regional integration in the Mediterranean region had highlighted the largely untapped potential to increase trade flows of goods and services, foreign direct investment, and mobility of people.
These three interlinked dimensions of regional...
International Trade and Labor Markets: Evidence from Egypt and Post-Covid shocks
[Agenda] Knowledge Event on “Trade, Employment and Post-COVID Integration in Global Value Chains (GVCs)” What accompanying policies are needed to reap employment benefits in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia?
On Trade Policy and Inclusiveness: What is at Stake?
The Post-Covid-19 Complementary Agenda
[Webinar] Trade, Employment and Post-COVID Integration in Global Value Chains (GVCs)
Jul 15, 2021 / Highlight
[Webinar] Trade, Employment and Post-COVID Integration in Global Value Chains (GVCs)"
What accompanying policies are needed to reap employment benefits
in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia?
27 JULY 2021 | 15:00-17:30 PARIS TIME (09:00-11:30 AM EDT)
Rationale
By allowing countries to specialize in producing the goods and services where they have...
[Recording] New Dimensions of Regional Integration: From Trade to Deeper Integration
[Presentation] Some Reflections on “Enhancing Mediterranean
[Webinar] Flagship report: Transforming Markets for More and Better Jobs in MENA
May 31, 2021 / Highlight
Virtual consultative workshop
Flagship report “Transforming Markets for More and Better Jobs in MENA”: Virtual consultative
Context
The Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) and the World Bank, in partnership with the Policy Center for the New South, are organizing a virtual consultative workshop on June 7, 2021, to engage youth...
[Agenda] Flagship report “Transforming Markets for More and Better Jobs in MENA”
Youth, Actors for Change: Rethinking Mobility
May 25, 2021 / Library
English
“Youth, Actors for Change: Rethinking Mobility”
This paper aims to contribute to a new discourse – around education, employability, and mobility, to enable the youth to become drivers for change in the Mediterranean region – appealed for in the “Commitments for a New Ambition in the Mediterranean” made in the framework of the...
COVID-19 and Women Employment in Mediterranean Countries: Impact and Policies for Reducing Gender Inequality in Work Med
Mar 08, 2021 / Library
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the global lockdown that was put in place to control it, have resulted in the harshest economic crisis since the great depression. The crisis has caused a drastic decline in employment and wages worldwide and threatens to increase the number of people living in poverty for the first time in years. Such effects hit some...
Reducing Gender Inequality and Unemployment among Women in the Mediterranean: Post-Covid Responses and Areas for More Regional Cooperation
Mar 08, 2021 / Library
This brief examines how the COVID-19 crisis has further aggravated gender inequality in the Southern Mediterranean region. Zooming in on socio-economic and social consequences, it highlights some gender-sensitive measures taken throughout the region to mitigate the impact for women. It argues that gender equality needs to be a priority and an...
Internationalization of Tertiary Education in MENA in the COVID-19 Context
Jan 11, 2021 / Highlight
Context:
In the Mediterranean, youth are bearing the brunt of the crises and undergoing exclusion on the economic, social and political levels, with high unemployment and a lack of opportunities to take part in public life. Nevertheless, they represent the Mediterranean region’s best opportunity. A massive investment in human capital is needed, in...
CMI/FEMISE MED BRIEFS: COVID-19 Implications in the Mediterranean
Dec 17, 2020 / Highlight
Rationale
The coronavirus has proved to be a serious threat not only to people’s health but also to economies and societies of all countries, regardless of their level of development. This crisis presents a real test to the resilience of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries, as it came at a time when they were challenged to keep...
FDI in the Mediterannean & Post-Covid Opportunities
Dec 02, 2020 / Library
In the framework of the regional Mediterranean of the Future Act IV event, and as a follow-up to the commitments of the previous edition, the Mediterranean Club of Investors was launched on November 30, 2020. The CMI was invited to participate, and Blanca Moreno-Dodson, CMI manager, gave a presentation about Foreign Direct Investments (...
Evaluating the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Income Distribution and Poverty in Turkey
Nov 30, 2020 / Library
As the Covid-19 virus takes hold of countries all over the world, economies are falling into a deep recession. The recent World Economic Outlook by the World Bank forecasts that Turkey’s GDP is likely to contract by 5 % in 2020. Unlike this, the Minister of Finance and Treasury has recently announced a 0.3 % growth rate in 2020. Governments...
Enhancing Mediterranean Integration
Nov 26, 2020 / Blog entry
This essay by CMI Manager Blanca-Moreno Dodson, provides an insight on a forthcoming CMI report on the same topic. It advocates for trade liberalization, human capital development, and sectoral reforms which can bring Mediterranean countries closer together, especially now in times of COVID-19.
You can read the full article on The Cairo...
Water and Climate Change Entrepreneurial E-Bootcamp
Nov 24, 2020 / Highlight
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Rationale
Back in June 2020, in the framework of the World Water Day organized annually by the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI), the CMI, Cewas Middle East and the Mediterranean Youth for Water MedYWat network, jointly implemented an e-Hackathon which gathered 61 young participants from the Mediterranean...
[CMI-FEMISE Webinar Series] Navigating through COVID-19 in the Mediterranean Act 1: Strategies for Integration and Resilience
Nov 23, 2020 / Highlight
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Context
The recent coronavirus crisis threatens the health, economies and societies of any country, regardless of its level of development. In the countries of the East and South of the Mediterranean the fight against the pandemic is even more complicated. It must be done with limited healthcare and economic...
Socio-Economic Response to COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities for Selected North Africa Countries
Nov 03, 2020 / Library
In the absence of effective therapies and vaccines, North African countries, as elsewhere, have taken comprehensive containment measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 such as closing airports and maritime boundaries, suspension of non-essential activities, and stay-at-home orders.
The first priority was clearly to keep people as healthy...
MENA Countries Can Improve Trade and Regional Integration to Improve the Economy After COVID-19
Oct 27, 2020 / Library
In this interview, MENA Economic Update authors Ha Nguyen, World Bank Senior Economist for MENA, and Blanca Moreno-Dodson, Director of the Centre for Mediterranean Integration, explain just how trade openness in the region can be significant in achieving inclusiveness and alleviating poverty, and how there is a key opportunity now to move towards...
Trading Together: Reviving Middle East and North Africa Regional Integration in the Post-Covid Era
Oct 21, 2020 / Library
Trade and integration — within MENA and with the rest of the world — will be critical to lowering poverty, empowering the poor, and igniting economic growth in the post-COVID era, according to the World Bank’s latest regional economic update.
The report, titled Trading Together: Reviving Middle East and North Africa Regional Integration in...
Trading Together: Reviving Middle East and North Africa Regional Integration in the Post-Covid Era
Oct 21, 2020 / Highlight
مع انهيار النمو الاقتصادي بالمنطقة، تتدهور أرصدة الموازنة وحسابات المعاملات الجارية، ومن المتوقع أن يرتفع الدين العام ارتفاعاً ملموساً.
واشنطن، 19 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول 2020 – ذكر البنك الدولي في تقريره الاقتصادي أن التجارة والتكامل داخل منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا، ومع بقية بلدان العالم، سيشكلان عاملاً حيوياً في خفض معدلات الفقر وتمكين...
COVID-19 and Households in Egypt: Implications, Policy Response, and Recommendations
Oct 12, 2020 / Library
The COVID19 pandemic has severe economic and social implications in Egypt. The resulting economic crisis is having its toll on income, employment, and poverty, and is exacerbating the hardships already faced by households and vulnerable groups in Egypt during the last 3 years. These years witnessed harsh measures as part of an economic reform and...
Responsive Transportation-Oriented Policies for the MED Region in the Face of Covid-19
Sep 29, 2020 / Library
The transportation sector is exposed to significant paradigm shifts and financial difficulties due to the Covid-19 epidemic in Mediterranean countries as well as all over the world. In particular, public transportation is struggling worldwide, with reduced passenger load factors of 50% to 90%. To address this issue, this brief aims to provide...
