Interview avec Ouiem Ouahhabi

China’s dominance in the production of rare earth elements symbolizes the competition for once obscure sets of mineral resources in our increasingly digital, low carbon world. For the last two decades China has produced between 80 and 95 percent of the world’s rare earths – a group of 17 metals that have become key components of revolutionary technological progress in fields ranging from energy, to ICT, to medical devices, to defense. Despite their name, rare earths are not rare, an ...

In this edition of the Med Report, three Senior Fellows from the Policy Center for the New South contributed to the Report. In Part 1 of the report, Positive Trends & Opportunities, Fathallah Oualalou contributed the paper “Growth in tourism: the Mediterranean scenario”(27-31), while Uri Dadush and Tayeb Amegroud contributed to Part 2 on Shared Prosperity, with the articles “Youth unemployment: a common problem with different solutions?” (94-98), and “Renewable energy: a soluti ...

Often described as an “ungoverned area”, the Niger-Libya border is nevertheless at the centre of major economic, political and security challenges. Both the Libyan authorities and the Nigerien state are struggling to establish tight control over this, particularly isolated area. However, local actors who live there are making their own modes of governance, based on individual and so far, barely institutionalised relationships. These local forms of regulation provide states in the su ...