Les Mardis du PCNS 12/01/2021: حلقة خاصة: تقديم التقرير السنوي للاقتصاد الإفريقي

January 12, 2021

التقرير السنوي للاقتصاد الإفريقي مشبع بروح وفلسفة مركز السياسات من أجل الجنوب الجديد. جنوب منفتح على العالم وغير مقيد في علاقته بالآخرين وفي رؤيته للذات. هذا والتقرير يدرس إفريقيا بنقاط قوتها ومعيقاتها، بمميزاتها وعيوبها، ما يجب تصحيحه وإعادة تنظيمه، وما يجب صيانته وتقويته وتوطيده. خلال الأزمة الصحية، تسبب فيروس كوفيد 19 في زعزعة التوقعات، وقلب السياسات الاقتصادية، وأثار التساؤل عن الخطط والبرامج التي سبق وتم تطويرها في هيئات صنع القرار في الدول الأفريقية والمنظمات القارية ومآلها اليوم مع الجائحة. تدور الأسئلة التي تم تناولها حول القضايا الاقتصادية، والموضوعات المتعلقة بالاندماج القاري والحكامة، وكذلك أسئلة حول المنظمات الإفريقية وصمود الدول في ظل هذه الجائحة، إضافة إلى قضايا النمو الاقتصادي، سوق الشغل، الهجرة، والأمن الغذائي، إلخ. يتطرق التقرير بين طياته إلى مجموعة من التحديات والمقاربات التي تنبني على أساسها الديناميكيات المتغيرة للقارة إن على التحديات الاقتصادية والإنمائية وتحدي التنسيق بين الاستجابات الدولية والوطنية، أو ما وراء المؤسسات من ضرورة وجود نموذج جديد يتسم بمقاربات تنبثق من أسس الحكامة وآلياتها بشكل يتماشى مع خصوصيات القارة الإفريقية. 45 دقيقة تقديم التقرير السنوي للاقتصاد الإفريقي المسيرة: إيمان لهريش، مسؤولة عن البرامج بمركز السياسات من أجل الجنوب الجديد المتدخلون: العربي الجعيدي، باحث بارز بمركز السياسات من أجل الجنوب الجديد فاطمة الزهراء منكوب، باحثة في المجال الزراعي بمركز السياسات من أجل الجنوب الجديد سلمى الداودي، باحثة في العلاقات الدولية بمركز السياسات من أجل الجنوب الجديد

Speakers
Fatima Ezzahra Mengoub
Senior Economist
Fatima Ezzahra Mengoub, researcher, development specialist, and policy analyst, is a Senior Economist at the Policy Center for the New South. She holds a PhD. in Economics applied to agriculture and an engineering degree in agricultural economics both from the Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Sciences. Her research addresses agricultural and rural development including agricultural growth analysis, economic structural change, inter and intra-regional agricultural trade, water management, and food security. She has also taught macroeconomics, microeconomics, and decision-making courses at the Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Sciences (IAV), the School of Governance and Economics (EGE), and the Faculty of Governance, Economics, and Social Sciences (FG ...
Imane Lahrich
Head – Research Valorization
Imane Lahrich is the Head of Research Valorization Department, having previously served as a Partnerships & Research Support Officer at the Policy Center for the New South since 2019. She mainly worked on security-development related projects. She has experience as a Project Manager in a Strategic Intelligence firm (2017-2019) and as a research consultant in the MENA region, focusing on international development and the Rule of Law. Imane Lahrich holds a Master's in Political Studies and a Bachelor's in Political Science from Mohammed V University of Rabat. She also participated in a one-year exchange program at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic under the EMMAG MUNDUS Excellence scholarship.     ...
Larabi Jaïdi
Senior Fellow
Larabi Jaïdi is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. His areas of expertise include international economy, economic policies, international economic relations, regional economies, social development, international relations, and Mediterranean studies. He also served on the Special Commission on the New Development Model of Morocco, a consultative body created in November 2019 to formulate the country's new developmental guidelines. Jaïdi is a former Professor at Mohamed V University in Rabat-Agdal and a founding member of both the Centre Marocain de Conjoncture and the Groupement d’Etudes et de Recherches sur la Méditerranée.   Prof. Jaïdi previously served as Advisor to the Prime Minister an ...

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