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AuthorsJanuary 31, 2019Without reforms, financial markets’ optimism may crumble – and bring the house down. Judging by the reaction of financial markets, the Brazilian economy started the year at high speed. The real is among the world’s best-performing currencies so far in 2019 and the main stock market index Ibovespa hit a string of record highs leading into last week, when it broke the 97,000-point mark. Future interest rates have fallen sharply. Foreign investors are buying in as well. The premium ...
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AuthorsMouhamadou Moustapha LyJanuary 30, 2019En l’espace d’une année, la Banque mondiale (BM) a enregistré deux démissions parmi son top management. Il y a douze mois (Janvier 2018), Paul Romer quittait la Banque mondiale pour retourner dans le monde académique. Au début de ce mois de janvier 2019, Jim Yong Kim annonce son départ de la présidence de la même institution pour rejoindre une autre spécialisée dans le financement des infrastructures. Pour Paul Romer, les critiques à l’endroit du classement Doing Business, et la r ...
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AuthorsJanuary 14, 2019Last week Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, unexpectedly announced his resignation, effective as soon as next month and three and a half years prior to the end of his second mandate. Given the current environment of challenged and weakened multilateralism, the aftermath of his succession has a relevance that transcends the limits of that institution. While an analyst has alluded to President Kim as “voting with his feet” on the World Bank's loss of significance in investme ...
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AuthorsJanuary 1, 2019Morocco has moved towards a more flexible exchange rate system, by widening its currency fluctuation bands to +/- 2.5% around a central price. This transition will, in time, equip the Moroccan economy with a macroeconomic instrument acting as a shock absorber and facilitating rapid adjustment at lower costs. In the absence of such a mechanism, adjustment to macroeconomic shocks at times requires a contraction in demand and thereby a cyclical downturn in growth to restore external ba ...
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AuthorsJanuary 1, 2019Le Maroc a initié une première étape vers l’adoption d’un régime de change flexible, en élargissant les bandes de fluctuations à +/- 2,5% par rapport à un cours central. Cette transition permettrait à l’économie marocaine de se doter, à terme, d’un instrument macroéconomique qui joue le rôle d’amortisseur de choc et qui favorise un ajustement rapide et à moindre coût. A défaut de ce mécanisme, l’ajustement aux chocs macroéconomiques a, parfois, nécessité une contraction de la demand ...
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December 15, 2018Moderator UDUAK AMIMO, CONSULTANT, UDUAK AMIMO CONSULTING (KENYA) Speakers André Caillé, Board Member, Junex R. Andreas Kraemer, Founder & Chairman, Ecologic Institute Josefa Sacko, Commissioner, Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission Teburoro Tito, Extraordinary an...
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December 15, 2018Moderator Richard Lui, Anchor, MSNBC / NBC News Speakers Laura Albornoz, Senior Fellow at the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, Former Minister of Women's Affairs, Chile Geraldo Alckmin, Governor of São Paulo, Brazil Alfredo G. A. Valladão, Professor at Sciences PO Paris, Senior Fell...
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December 15, 2018Moderator UDUAK AMIMO, CONSULTANT, UDUAK AMIMO CONSULTING (KENYA) Speakers André Caillé, Board Member, Junex R. Andreas Kraemer, Founder & Chairman, Ecologic Institute Josefa Sacko, Commissioner, Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission Teburoro Tito, Extraordinary an...
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December 15, 2018Moderator Richard Lui, Anchor, MSNBC / NBC News Speakers Laura Albornoz, Senior Fellow at the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, Former Minister of Women's Affairs, Chile Geraldo Alckmin, Governor of São Paulo, Brazil Alfredo G. A. Valladão, Professor at Sciences PO Paris, Senior Fell...
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December 14, 2018PLENARY VII: 10 YEARS AFTER THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: IS THE NEXT ONE LOOMING? Moderator Yinka Adegoke, Editor, Quartz Africa Speakers Rym Ayadi, Professor, CASS Business School Othman El Ferdaous, Secretary of State in charge of Investment, Ministry of Industry, Investment, T...