Events

The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and the OCP Policy Center of Morocco are seeking volunteers to provide support at The Atlantic Dialogues, an event taking place October 24-26, 2014 at the Palmeraie Hotels and Resorts in Marrakesh.

The German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Brussels, Belgium.

By Caroline Freund

17:30 – 19:30, OCP Policy Center, Rabat, Morocco

New evidence highlights the importance of strong firm dynamics in generating jobs, growth, and exports. Young, rapidly-growing firms and large firms create the most jobs on net.  Productivity growth is closely linked with firm ynamics, where faster growing economies experience a more rapid shift of resources to the most productive firms. Large firms enable countries to compete in the global economy, with the top one percent of exporters typically accounting for more than half of a country’s total exports. The evidence shows that creating an environment that facilitates firm growth and allows large firms to thrive is critical to income growth, job creation and global integration. The presentation will cover middle-income countries around the world, with a focus on regional economies, including Morocco, Tunisia, and Jordan.

By Ian Lesser

17:30 - 19:30, OCP Policy Center, Rabat, Morocco.

In this conference, the speaker will present three aspects of the situation in Turkey. The first part will deal with the internal developments,de-coding the recent elections and the up-coming presidential and general elections and analysing the implications of economic slow-down after a decade of dynamism as well as the new social and political dynamics in a country of “parallel elites” and a strong state.

The speaker will then present Turkey’s regional environment and policies with the collapse of the regional order in Turkey’s Middle Eastern and Eurasian neighborhoods, the return of hard security challenges, from Syria to the Black Sea, the Energy dilemmas, costs of unresolved business on Cyprus and the the continued commercial engagement in MENA, Africa, etc.

Finally the speaker will present the Euro-Atlantic Outlook : the troubled agenda with the EU, the NATO as a critical but “uncomfortable” partner, the relations with Washington as well as the nationalism, sovereignty consciousness, and populism and the outlook for relations with the West.