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Presentation of the Global Economic Outlook

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11:00 am March 2016

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12:00 pm March 2016

Haut Commissariat au Plan, Rabat

OCP Policy Center will be hosting Uri Dadush, Senior Fellow, OCP Policy Center for a presentation of the Global Economic Outlook. 

Following more disappointing news on China and the first Fed interest rate increase in 10 years global financial markets have been extremely volatile. Oil prices have plumbed new depths, and financial markets have begun to read low oil prices as a sign of extreme weakness in the world economy instead of as potentially a boost to world aggregate demand. The pessimism is very likely overdone as it overlooks the continued gradual recovery in the United States and Europe, as well as the resilience of many emerging markets. Still, confidence does have a life of its own, so one-year-ahead growth forecasts need to be pared back a bit, and downside risks need to be carefully re-examined. This session will also try to dispel some common misconceptions about the current economic outlook. 

Speakers
Uri Dadush
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Uri Dadush is non-resident Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, where he served as Senior Fellow from its founding in 2014 until 2022. He is Research Professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland and a non-resident scholar at Bruegel. He is based in Washington, DC, and is Principal of Economic Policy International, LLC, providing consulting services to the World Bank and to other international organizations as well as corporations. Previously, he served as Director of the International Economics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and, at the World Bank, was Director of the International Trade, Economic Policy, and Development Prospects Departments. In the private sector before that he was President of the Economist Int ...