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“Stabilization and Adjustment: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Policies in MENA”, the 29th Annual Conference of the Economic Research Forum

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Add to Calendar 2023-05-03 10:00:00 2025-05-02 16:18:59 “Stabilization and Adjustment: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Policies in MENA”, the 29th Annual Conference of the Economic Research Forum Description Location Policy Center Policy Center Africa/Casablanca public

Our Head of Economics, Abdelaaziz Ait Ali & our Senior Fellow, Hafez Ghanem will participate in the 29th Annual Conference of the Economic Research Forum, the 3th of May 2023, from 12:00 am to 7:00 pm in Cairo, Egypt at The Nile University.  They will both be speaking in the panel under the theme “Stabilization and Adjustment: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Policies in MENA”.  A comprehensive approach that combines fiscal consolidation with measures to boost inclusive growth and support social protection is necessary to address the current economic and financial challenges in MENA countries. Such an approach should prioritize investments in human capital, innovation, and sustainable development to ensure long-term economic and social stability. In this framework, the ERF and FDL launched a joint research project on Stabilization and Adjustment in MENA, focusing on the oil importing middle-income countries of the region: Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia, Morocco, Sudan, and Jordan. The project’s objective is clarifying the macro-economic risks related to external and internal balances (and the sustainability of public and external debt), and to propose an overall strategy to tackle these risks, trying to find a balance between austerity and innovative growth measures.

 

 

Speakers
Abdelaaziz Ait Ali
Head - Research in Economics
Abdelaaziz Ait Ali is a principal Economist and head of the Research Department at the Policy Center for the New South. He joined the Center in 2014 after five years of experience at the Central Bank of Morocco. He worked as an economist in the International Studies and Relations Department and was analyzing the real estate price index and financial asset prices for monetary policy and financial stability purposes. Since then, Abdelaaziz has focused on cyclical and structural issues of the Moroccan economy, including macroeconomic management and industrial policy design. He has published articles on the reform of the exchange rate regime in the Moroccan economy and its implications for macroeconomic regulation, as well as on the evolution of the macroeconomic framework over th ...
Hafez Ghanem
Senior Fellow
Hafez Ghanem – who holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Davis – is Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, a development expert with a large number of academic publications; and more than forty-year experience in policy analysis, project formulation and supervision, and management of multinational institutions.  He has worked in over 40 countries in Africa, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, and South East Asia.   Between 2015 and 2022 he was Vice President of the World Bank, initially responsible for the Middle East and North Africa, then for Sub-Saharan Africa and then East and Southern Africa.     In this latter capacity he was responsible for developing and implementing the World Bank’s strategy in the region, inc ...