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Financial technology as a driver of financial inclusion and inclusive development in the MENA region: Risks and opportunities
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Financial technology as a driver of financial inclusion and inclusive development in the MENA region: Risks and opportunities
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Our Senior fellow Aomar Ibourk will participate in the 29th Annual Conference of the Economic Research Forum which will be held in Cairo, Egypt from May 4-6, 2023 at The Nile University. Dr. Ibourk will present his co-authored paper entitled “Financial technology as a driver of financial inclusion and inclusive development in the MENA region: Risks and opportunities”. His paper makes a contribution to the global analysis of the economic outlook for the MENA countries that face several challenges related to their economies, political institutions, inequality, poverty, youth unemployment, and informality, adding to that external shocks and complexity of their development path.
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Aomar Ibourk
Senior Fellow
Aomar Ibourk, is a professor of quantitative methods and social economics at the Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech, an economist, as well as Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, who focuses on Applied econometrics, labor market, economics of education and development economics. He is also the director of GRES (Economic and Social Research Group) at the same university. His research focuses on econometric methodologies applied to social sciences (labor economics, economics of education and Development).
Mr. Ibourk's doctoral thesis looks into the "Contribution to Econometrics through the Labor Market Matching Process: Macro and Microeconometric Approaches to the Moroccan Labor Market."
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