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Regional Integration: Can it Bring More Independence to Africa?

 

Although there is no single way to understand regional integration, it is considered beneficial in all its forms. It is commonly accepted that countries that are better integrated into their regional space are more likely to benefit from their anchorage. Regional integration can take many forms and be applied in different ways. In Africa, regional economic integration, which takes place mainly through trade relations, is the most widespread model. This model of integration is often concluded between two or more countries with the aim of forming a trade bloc and increasing trade flows at the regional level through the liberalization of trade relations between the countries involved ...

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Les conséquences de l’invasion de l’Ukraine, par la Russie, pour l’approvisionnement de l’Afrique en blé

 

L'invasion, par la Russie, de l'Ukraine, grenier à blé de la mer Noire, impacte lourdement le marché mondial de cette denrée, en premier lieu les principaux pays/clients importateurs des deux belligérants. L'objet de cette étude est d'analyser les conséquences de cette guerre pour l’Afrique, continent où le pain est un aliment de base. Ce qui nous conduit, tout d'abord, à rappeler les données générales de ce marché, avec une Russie et une Ukraine respectivement au premier et cinquième rangs mondiaux des pays exportateurs, avec une Union européenne (UE) qui, suite à ce conflit ...

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Dollar dominance will remain

 

The heavy financial sanctions on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine sparked speculations that the weaponization of access to reserves in dollars, euros, pounds, and yen would spark a division in the international monetary order. China would tend to strengthen its own international payments system and accelerate the establishment of its currency – the Renminbi – as a rival reserve currency to reduce its vulnerability to moves of a similar nature against it. Countries facing geopolitical risks in their relationship with the United States and Europe would seize the opportunity to switch out of the dollar system ...

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The Neglected Side of the Water Management Equation: Demand Management

 

The start of 2022 has been marked by drought, with countries around the world experiencing abnormally low levels of precipitation and dryness over the last few months. On the African continent, the intensity and duration of the droughts is wreaking havoc on economies already struggling because of the pandemic. In the eastern part of the continent, drought threatened to put countries in the Horn of Africa “on the brink of catastrophe” as late as February. In the north, Morocco is experiencing one of the worst droughts in the last 30-40 years, devastating its agricultural sector  ...

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Parlons Développement 7ème Edition : « La migration : Levier de développement territorial ? »

 

La pandémie de la COVID-19 a déclenché, en une courte période, une crise sans précédent entraînant des effets négatifs sur l’économie mondiale, le progrès social et l’atteinte des Objectifs du développement durable (ODD). Le Policy Centre for the New South, le Programme des nations unies pour le développement (PNUD) et la Banque mondiale voient dans ces incertitudes et dans la crise actuelle une nouvelle opportunité de réflexion collective autour des grands enjeux du développement durable.

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حديث الثلاثاء : منظومة النقل وتحدي الاستدامة في المغرب

 

يخصص مركز السياسات من أجل الجنوب الجديد حلقة برنامجه الأسبوعي "حديث الثلاثاء" لمنظومة النقل وتحدي الاستدامة في المغرب مع السيد كريم بن عمارة، رئيس مصلحة الحركية المستدامة بمديرية النقل الطرقي - وزارة النقل واللوجستيك. موضوع التنقل المستدام كان حاضراً وبقوة في مؤتمر الأمم المتحدة السادس والعشرين للأطراف بشأن تغير المناخ (كوب-26) المنعقد في غلاسكو بالمملكة المتحدة، فقد أبرز معظم التحديات البيئية التي يجب مواجهتها، ومن بينها تلك المتعلقة بالتنقل والحركية المستدامة (النقل النظيف)

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There Are No Shortcuts to Economic Development

 

The Covid-19 crisis has led to major disruptions in Global Value Chains. In this episode, Otaviano Canuto answers to questions about the impact on the design of post-covid industrial policies, and underlines the components that should be considered by policymakers to ensure a quick and sound economic recovery along with a regional integration which plays a role in this new industrial organization scheme....

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UPCOMING EVENTS

 

  • How are central banks in Africa addressing climate related risks and supporting mitigation and adaptation policies? | April 5 , 2022 - 09:00 am

  • The Response of International and Regional Financial Institutions to COVID 19 | April 6 , 2022 - 02:00 pm

 

 

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