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Southern-Driven Development Research Agenda

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1:00 pm October 2021

Karim El Aynaoui, Executive President at Policy Center for the New South, will be chairing the Plenary session “Southern-Driven Development Research Agenda” at the upcoming “Evidence for Development: What Works Global Summit 2021” , co-hosted by GDN and the Campbell Collaboration.

The discussion will revolve around the role of southern based think tanks, universities and research centers in developing research agendas of local, regional and global relevance; the challenges in doing so; demand or the lack of it from local policy actors; funding these agendas, including the role that external funders in supporting Southern development research agendas and informed policy debates in increasingly polarized contexts; and the capacity to develop and implement these agendas

This event is taking place on Thursday October 21st, 2021 at 14:00-15:30 CET (8 AM EST)

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. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at the Central Bank of Morocco (Bank Al-Maghrib) as Director of Economics, Statistics, and International Relations. He also created and headed the Research Department and served as 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. He has co-authored works on growth and the labor market in M ...