Bouchra Rahmouni
| Posted : April 05, 2018
Depuis la création de l’OMC, l’économie mondiale a enregistré deux évolutions majeures : la mise en place des chaînes de valeur globales et la conclusion de méga-accords commerciaux régionaux (Accord transatlantique Europe-États-Unis, Accord de Partenariat Transpacifique entre l’Amérique du Nord et une dizaine de pays asiatiques, partenariat unique total entre l’ASEAN, la Chine, le Japon et la Corée du Sud, plus la partie océanique). Le commerce intra-régional n’est plus une simple logique d’échange, mais plutôt une question de développement et même de survie.
Mokhtar Ghailani
| Posted : March 30, 2018
L’OCP Policy Center a eu la primeur de la présentation, par l’historien Jean Pierre Filiu, de son dernier livre « Généraux, gangsters et jihadistes. Histoire de la contre-révolution arabe », la toute première hors de son pays, la France. Une première dont il se réjouira au début du débat-échange autour de son ouvrage, tenue le 28 mars 2018, en partenariat avec l’Institut Français du Maroc.
Helmut Sorge
| Posted : March 29, 2018
The Soviet crew faced death in the depth of the Caribbean. Their submarine of the diesel powered “Foxtrott” class, registered as “B -52”, had been transformed into a gigantic metal coffin. It was in October 1962, the month when the world stopped breathing. The end, nuclear war, seemed near. Human civilization has never faced such an APOCALYPSE in history. The unthinkable was likely to happen. Washington and Moscow, here the leaders of the free capitalistic world, and there the representatives of Communism determined to spread their political gospel and military power, were ready to destroy the world for a handful of Soviet nuclear missiles stationed secretly on Cuban soil, just 300 miles away from the United States.
Mouhamadou Moustapha Ly
| Posted : March 28, 2018
Ce mardi 21 Mars 2018, quarante-quatre chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement réunis à Kigali (Rwanda) signaient l’accord de création de la zone de libre échange continentale (Continental Free Trade Area, CFTA). Cet accord historique marque la volonté des Etats africains d’aller vers la mise en place à l’échelle du continent d’un marché commun où les échanges de biens et de services seraient libres et la circulation des capitaux et des personnes sans contraintes. Tels que précisés dans la déclaration de Juillet 2012, les objectifs visés sont le développement du commerce intracontinental, la transformation structurelle des économies africaines, la mise en place de conditions favorables au développement industriel par la diversification de la production mais aussi par le développement de chaines de valeur régionales.
Sorge Helmut
| Posted : March 16, 2018
He has reserved his page in history. Half a century ago Ernest “Che” Guevara was an icon of a global youth rebellion, a revolutionary pop star for the dreaming romantic generation of 1968- kids of the bourgeois conformist society who never had the courage to risk their lives or time for the oppressed. Instead, the angry restless sympathizers of Cuban and Vietnamese fighters threw stones and molotov cocktails, some smoked pot and shouted their support to Ho Chi Minh, the frail leader of the daring Vietnamese in the streets of Berlin, California’s Berkeley, Rome and Paris. The brave Vietnamese people, surviving on a daily ration of rice, their feet protected against American land mines and booby traps by sandals made from bamboo, were promoted to supermen (and women) because they dared to challenge the mighty and ruthless USA. More: they forced the assumed invincible power to flee, leaving behind a destroyed country and damaged egos of their GI’s.
Posted : March 15, 2018
| Posted : March 15, 2018
« Revise, Reboot, Rebuild : Strategies for a time of Distrust »: that was this year’s theme for the Brussels Forum, a yearly high-level conference held from March 8th to 10th by the US think tank German Marshall Fund (GMF), partner of the OCP Policy Center who attended the event through its delegation. This meeting of some 400 policymakers, academics and private sector operators is reviewing the relationship between Europe and the United States. Brexit, the Trump administration, the migrant crisis and the rise of populism have been discussed, in the presence of Youssef Amrani, former minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Morocco and Special Advisor to the King Mohammed VI, and two senior fellows of the OCP Policy Center, Abdelhak Bassou and Mohammed Loulichki.
Uri Dadush
| Posted : March 15, 2018
President Trump’s proclamation that, because of national security concerns, he will apply a 25% tariff on all steel and a 10% tariff on all aluminium imports into the United States – except provisionally and dependent on NAFTA negotiations those from Canada and Mexico – affects, respectively 5.1 billion Euros and 1.1 billion Euros of EU exports. These are not trivial sums. However, the invocation of the national security exception in this case has implications that go far beyond narrow sectoral effects: it represents a challenge to the world trading system as we know it, and is, in fact, the challenge the President of the United States had promised many times during the election campaign and as a private citizen in decades prior.
Abdelhak Bassou
| Posted : March 13, 2018
S’adressant à l’Occident en 1989, Alexandre Arbatov, conseiller diplomatique de Mikhaïl Gorbatchev avait dit : "nous allons vous rendre le pire des services, nous allons vous priver d'ennemi ". Ce que le russe n’avait pas prévu à ce moment, c’est que la disparition de l’Union Soviétique allait priver l’occident de bien plus que d’un ennemi : elle allait le priver de son identité.
Otaviano Canuto
| Posted : March 07, 2018
Brazilian conditional cash transfers are small amounts of money the government distributes directly to very poor households on condition that their children attend school and are vaccinated. The money goes to the women of the household, because research undertaken in the 1990s – and later confirmed in other countries – showed an increase in babies' height and weight when women have more control over household income. Greater control over household resources by women can strengthen an economy where poverty dominates, as spending patterns tend to be shaped in ways that benefit children. There is also strong evidence that improvements in women's education and health are associated with better outcomes for their children.
Abdelhak Bassou
| Posted : March 05, 2018
Les attaques terroristes au Sahel se sont multipliées et intensifiées depuis le début de l’année 2017 en général et depuis l’annonce de la création de la force G5 Sahel en particulier. Les armées maliennes, nigériennes et burkinabés en sont les cibles privilégiées, mais elles ne sont pas les seules. La MINUSMA (mission des Nations-Unies pour la stabilisation du Mali) perd des hommes dans les différentes attaques presque quotidiennes et même BARKHANE (opération au Sahel de l’armée française), réputée être une force mieux équipée, plus organisée et hautement professionnelle, a subi des dégâts humains.
