Les Mardis du PCNS : دور وسائل التكنولوجيا الحديثة في ظل أزمة كورونا

Multiple shocks faced by the global economy over the past three years have apparently shaken the conventional wisdom on gains from economic integration, and have sparked widespread calls for protectionist and nationalist policies. Is there already evidence of some ‘deglobalization’, or do the factors that underlie globalization remain strong enough despite the shocks? So far, there are no signs of an overall reversal in the long-term trend of greater global trade integration. Howev ...

The Mediterranean region is one of the major climate-change hotspots. Advancing the region’s transition to a low-carbon and renewable energy production system will be crucial to counter global warming and achieve the objectives outlined in the Paris Agreement. However, fossil fuels continue to dominate the region's energy mix, while renewable energy sources meet only a marginal share of the overall demand. The green-energy transition in Mediterranean countries, moreover, represents ...

On October 6, 1973, the Israeli authorities were warned of the imminent outbreak of war on their borders with the Arab states. This warning confirmed information received a few days previously, which Israeli political decision-makers and iintelligence services had not taken seriously. Israel was taken by surprise and its army panicked. It was a debacle. Fifty years later, almost to the day, Israel was once again taken by surprise. On the morning of October 7, 2023, hundreds of armed ...

Le Maroc est la partie la plus septentrionale et occidentale de l’Afrique, part essentielle du sud de la Méditerranée. Prolongement du continent vers la Méditerranée, le Proche et le Moyen-Orient, il est aussi le passage terrestre dominant vers cette Afrique, dont le Sahara, loin de constituer une délimitation, est en fait un ensemble de routes et de flux de mobilités durables. Depuis les temps les plus reculés, au moins depuis les Phéniciens, les Carthaginois, les Vandales ...

This Policy brief was originally published on erf.org.eg Like many emerging and developing economies, Morocco has experienced a significant increase in public debt since the COVID-19 pandemic. Central government debt reached 69.6 percent of GDP in 2022, up from 60.3 percent in 2019, and overall public debt increased to 82.5 percent of GDP in 2022, well above the presumed critical threshold of 60 percent. Therefore, it becomes crucial to conduct a comprehensive debt sustainability a ...