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Overconfident: How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID

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Add to Calendar 2021-11-18 14:00:00 2024-03-28 12:49:05 Overconfident: How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID Description Location Policy Center Policy Center Africa/Casablanca public

MEDirections Roundtable, Report Launch, World Bank MENA Economic Update

Karim El Aynaoui, Executive President at Policy Center for the New South, will be speaking at the “Report Launch: World Bank MENA Economic Update” organized by the World Bank and the European University Institute (EUI) who will share the findings from this latest report, followed by an engaging conversation with a panel of World Bank and EUI experts.

This special presentation and discussion will be about the World Bank’s latest Middle East and North Africa Economic Update, a twice-yearly forecast that looks at growth prospects for the region titled, “Overconfident: How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19”. This edition offers a stark assessment of the preparedness of MENA’s public health systems to handle a pandemic and suggests policy recommendations, including a need to improve data transparency for public health and to remedy historical under-investment in health.

This event is taking place on Thursday November 18, 2021 / 14.00 - 15.00 (CET).

 

Speakers
Karim El Aynaoui
Executive President
Karim El Aynaoui is Executive President of the Policy Center for the New South. He is also Executive Vice-President of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Dean of its Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences Cluster. Karim El Aynaoui is an economist. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at the Central Bank of Morocco where he held the position of Director of Economics, Statistics, and International Relations. At the Central Bank of Morocco, he was in charge of the Research Department and equally a member of the Governor’s Cabinet. Previously, he worked for eight years at the World Bank as an Economist for its regional units of the Middle East and North Africa and Africa. Karim El Aynaoui has published books and journal articles on macroeconomic issues in developing countries. Hi ...