Interview avec Uri Dadush, Senior Fellow , au sujet des inégalités au Maroc.

In a world confronting the devastating effects of climate change, natural disasters are increasingly at the forefront of international community concerns. The management of such disasters is an essential task of governments, given their sovereign powers and responsibility to protect populations. Yet the scale of disasters and the severity of damage they cause, along with the limited capacities of many states, entail international responsibility as part of global solidarity. This bri ...

If we want to understand the implications for growth—particularly the costs—of moving towards a fractured trading system, we can use as a benchmark what happened during the period of what is usually called hyper-globalization or globalization 2.0. Here, I'll try to highlight the relevant aspects, to use them as a benchmark to shine a light on the costs of increasing fragmentation of the trading system. So, what was hyper-globalization or, as Professor Richard Baldwin from the Genev ...

Le Maroc a été frappé, dans la nuit du 8 au 9 septembre 2023, par un tremblement de terre d’une magnitude de 7 degrés sur l’échelle Richter, dont l’épicentre a été localisé au centre du pays dans la région d’Al Haouz, située au milieu de la chaîne montagneuse du Haut Atlas, mais qui a également touché des villes telles que Rabat, Casablanca, Taroudant et surtout la Ville de Marrakech.  Le séisme a surtout coûté la vie à des centaines de villageois qui, au moment de la secousse tel ...

Ce Policy Brief scrute la recherche économique en Afrique en se basant sur des données de la plateforme RePEc (Research Papers in Economics). Il étudie la productivité des chercheurs affiliés aux institutions africaines, dont certains sont très prolifiques, alors que la moyenne observée au niveau du continent demeure en deçà des normes internationales. Il en résulte que la contribution de l'Afrique à la recherche économique mondiale demeure modeste malgré les enjeux économiques sign ...

This Policy Brief examines economic research in Africa using data from the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) platform. It examines the productivity of researchers affiliated with African institutions, some of whom are extremely prolific, while the average for the continent as a whole remains below international standards. As a result, Africa's contribution to global economic research as a whole remains modest, despite the continent's considerable economic stakes. The paper then ...