Policy briefs

The Improving Global Outlook and Morocco

Global economic growth is likely to be a little better in 2016 than this year’s lackluster outcome. The ongoing slow recovery in the United States...

“20th Anniversary of the Barcelona Declaration. Challenges to opportunities: a common development agenda for the Mediterranean”

The geopolitical situation currently prevailing in the Mediterranean region is difficult and complex, notably due to the emergence of a new...

20e Anniversaire de la Déclaration de Barcelone. Des défis aux opportunités : un agenda de développement commun pour la méditerranée

La situation géopolitique prévalant actuellement dans le pourtour méditerranéen est difficile et complexe, en raison notamment, de l’apparition d’...

Commodities: a new era

At what level will the oil price be in a month, six months, or one year? This question, as fundamental and haunting as it may be, wrongly dominates...

Matières premières: une nouvelle ère

A quels niveaux seront les prix pétroliers dans un mois, six mois, un an ? Cette question, pour fondamentale et obsédante qu’elle soit, domine à tort...

Rethinking the Mediterranean Strategic Agenda in an Evolving Environment

Transforming the Euro-Mediterranean basin into a common area of peace and stability that guarantees a zone of shared prosperity between the two...

Trade, Inequality, and Morocco

This is the era of hyper-globalization and rapid growth. Consumers search on line for the best-priced merchandise from all over the world, and trade...

Sovereign Stabilization Funds and the End of the Commodities Super-cycle: What are the Challenges?

In the mid 2000s, the media and political spheres discovered what they though to be a new type of investor coming mostly from the Gulf countries and...

Fonds souverains de stabilisation et fin du super-cycle des matières premières: quels enjeux?

Au milieu des années 2000, le monde médiatique et les sphères politiques découvrent un investisseur d’un genre que l’on croyait nouveau, venu en...

Does Growth Create Jobs in the G-20 Economies?

Unemployment remains a global concern: if they formed their own country, the unemployed would constitute the fifth most populous country in the world...

A chequered African history of commodity markets, part one: bauxite and aluminium

History has always been patterned by commodities, from the early Iron or Bronze Ages to the silk road, from the Gold rush to the late shale gas...

Should we worry about the Great Trade Slowdown?

China’s recent decision to allow a very slight devaluation of the Yuan caused a momentary panic in stock markets around the world. Behind the extreme...

The Transformational Role of Technology in the Atlantic Basin

This brief seeks to look into how innovation ecosystems in the Atlantic Basin may affect public policymaking, economic development, and the future of...