Interview with Patrick Malope "Africa Think Tank Summit 2018"

Le sens communautaire évoqué par Karim El Aynaoui, directeur général de l’OCP Policy Center, dans son allocution de bienvenue aux participants à la seconde édition du Sommet des think tanks africains, s’est exprimé dans toute sa richesse et sa diversité le 9 mai. Les interventions de ce jour d’ouverture, émanant de 100 participants venus de 20 pays et représentant 40 think tanks (sur un total de 759 think tanks à travers l’Afrique, soit 10% environ du total mondial selon le Program ...

Think tanks are blooming in Africa, as they have been in the USA, Europe and China… Some are already mature, like the Codesria, launched in 1973 in Dakar (Senegal) or the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), first established in 1991 in Pretoria, with regional offices opened in Cape Town, Addis Abeba and Nairobi.  Some are still young and spreading their wings, like AfriHeritage in Nigeria, founded in 2000 or the Groupe de recherche et d’analyse appliquées pour le développement (G ...

For decades, the North African Maghreb has been both a source of irregular migration to Europe and a gateway for sub-Saharan Africans transiting to Europe. Now the Maghreb is also emerging as a destination for migration. While Europe remains the preferred destination for most African migrants, reaching Europe is becoming increasingly difficult at precisely the time that migration pressures in Africa are mounting. Africa’s massive migration is just getting started—and this presents ...

La conférence-débat, organisée par l’OCP Policy Center, en association avec Sciences Po Paris Alumni Maroc (AMASP), le 26 avril 2018, autour du livre « Les enjeux du marché du travail au Maroc », et co-dirigé par Karim el Aynaoui et Aomar Ibourk, ne pouvait mieux tomber.  Le  pavé, de quelques 450 pages, bien structuré et fourni en données et en analyses « différenciées mais complémentaires » développées par une brochette d’experts et d’analystes, intervient dans un contexte nation ...

Destination-based business cash-flow taxes have received a great deal of attention and are being widely considered as a replacement for traditional, origin-based, corporate taxes. These taxes combine the strong revenue-raising ability of a VAT with an enormously expensive tax deduction for wages. They would certainly be attractive to foreign investors by eliminating the burden of current corporate taxes. However, adopting them at the rates typically discussed would raise consumer pr ...

This paper reports the results of an application using an interregional input-output matrix for Morocco together with regional information on water consumption by sectors. We develop a trade-based index that reveals the relative water use intensities associated with specific interregional and international trade flows. We estimate, for each flow associated with each origin-destination pair, measures of trade in value added and trade in water that are further used to calculate our in ...

Since 2011 and the end of the post-election crisis, Côte d’Ivoire has returned to impressive economic growth. The country and its capital are drawing attention from a growing number of investors, and the “Abidjanian middle classes” are widely publicised and sought after. At the same time, Abidjanian consumption spaces have become particularly diversified and transformed. Abidjan provides many options for consumers who are operating in a competitive environment with a wide selection ...

L’Afrique centrale a fait l’objet du focus sous-régional de la deuxième partie des cinquièmes Dialogues stratégiques, une rencontre biannuelle organisée le 11 avril dernier à Paris par l’OCP Policy Center et HEC.  Renouveler le partenariat Europe-Afrique Le débat s’est d’abord inscrit dans une réflexion générale sur « l’Afrique et le monde». Dans ce cadre, le partenariat traditionnel entre l’Afrique et l’Europe semble avoir besoin de se renouveler, dans la mesure où la politique e ...