Key Messages: English / French / Arabic.   The World Bank’s latest Quarterly Economic Brief for MENA has revised estimates of economic growth in MENA, at 2.6 percent in 2015, falling short of expectations from the 2.8 percent predicted in October. Being constrained by war, terrorism and to some extent cheap oil, short term growth...

Despite their geographical and cultural proximity, Europe and Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries (SEMC) have still not developed a real common economic strategy, as Japan managed to do in the 1960s in Asia, or Germany in the 1990s with Central and Eastern European countries. Yet each region could draw solutions from the other’s territory...

The digital economy now permeates countless aspects of the world economy, impacting sectors as varied as banking, retail, energy, transportation, education, publishing, media or health. Information and Communication Technologies are transforming the ways social interactions and personal relationships are conducted, with fixed, mobile and broadcast...

May 19-21, 2015, Barcelona, Spain    The CMI Manager joined an expert panel at the High-Level Conference organized by the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) on “Fostering Women’s Participation in Economic Life.” He presented an overview of women’s current situation in MENA and its implications on the economic development of the region and...