International Jobs Report: Update 2015

La domination de la Chine dans la production de terres rares illustre la compétition qui se joue autour des ressources minérales dans un monde toujours plus axé sur le numérique et le bas-carbone. Au cours des deux dernières décennies, la Chine a été à l’origine de 80 à 95 % de la production mondiale de terres rares, un groupe de 17 métaux devenus des éléments-clés de progrès technologiques révolutionnaires dans les domaines de l’énergie, des TIC, des dispositifs médicaux ou encore ...

Morocco 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 ...

China’s dominance in the production of rare earth elements symbolizes the competition for once obscure sets of mineral resources in our increasingly digital, low carbon world. For the last two decades China has produced between 80 and 95 percent of the world’s rare earths – a group of 17 metals that have become key components of revolutionary technological progress in fields ranging from energy, to ICT, to medical devices, to defense. Despite their name, rare earths are not rare, an ...

Le 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 ...

In this edition of the Med Report, three Senior Fellows from the Policy Center for the New South contributed to the Report. In Part 1 of the report, Positive Trends & Opportunities, Fathallah Oualalou contributed the paper “Growth in tourism: the Mediterranean scenario”(27-31), while Uri Dadush and Tayeb Amegroud contributed to Part 2 on Shared Prosperity, with the articles “Youth unemployment: a common problem with different solutions?” (94-98), and “Renewable energy: a soluti ...

Often described as an “ungoverned area”, the Niger-Libya border is nevertheless at the centre of major economic, political and security challenges. Both the Libyan authorities and the Nigerien state are struggling to establish tight control over this, particularly isolated area. However, local actors who live there are making their own modes of governance, based on individual and so far, barely institutionalised relationships. These local forms of regulation provide states in the su ...