Session 4: Structural Change in The Global Economy and Its Meaning for Emerging Markets

En octobre 2023, la Chine a organisé le 3ème forum de l'Initiative « Ceinture et Route ». Le choix de la date n’était pas anodin, étant donné qu’elle coïncidait avec la célébration du 10ème anniversaire de l'Initiative. Une initiative aux multiples composantes L’Initiative « Ceinture et Route », également connue sous l’acronyme BRI (Belt and Road Initiative), a été initialement conçue pour permettre à la Chine de renforcer ses liens commerciaux avec les Etats partenaires de son I ...

This Paper was originally published on onlinelibrary.wiley.com This study aimed to unveil the evolving landscape of digital financial inclusion in African countries during the post-COVID-19 era. We examined factors influencing the access and usage of digital financial services and identified population segments facing increased exclusion due to the digital divide. First, by applying principal component analysis to data collected at the country level from 39 African countries in 201 ...

يتفحص هذا الموجز السياسي البحث الاقتصادي في إفريقيا بناءً على معطيات من منصة ورقات بحث في الاقتصاد. ويدرس إنتاجية الباحثين المنتسبين إلى المؤسسات الإفريقية، حيث أن بعضها غزير الإنتاج، بينما يظل المعدل الملاحظ على المستوى القاري أقل من المعايير الدولية. ونتيجة لذلك، لا تزال مساهمة إفريقيا في البحوث الاقتصادية العالمية متواضعة على الرغم من التحديات الاقتصادية الكبيرة التي تواجهها القارة. ثم تتناول الورقة مواضيع البحث الغالبة من خلال تحليل شفرات دراسات اقتصادية جديدة ومجلة الأدبيات الا ...

Morocco is positioned as a new global hub of the automotive industry in an increasingly volatile international context, with various emerging countries competing intensively to gain the best returns on openness and globalization. The Moroccan automotive industry’s recent performance shows it to be the most dynamic sector in the economy: from 2014 to 2019, value-added in the automotive sector increased by almost 70% while the overall national value-added increased by only 15%. In the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the name given to the broad spectrum of technologies by which machines can perceive, interpret, learn, and act by imitating human cognitive abilities. Automation was created to better fulfill repetitive tasks, increasing productivity. AI, with its impressive rate of evolution, can produce new content: texts, images, new computational codes, possibly medical diagnoses, interpretations of data, and so on. It is no coincidence that an AI-based technolog ...

The annual World Economic Forum took place in Davos, Switzerland, from January 15-19. Every year for 54 years, a global business elite has traveled there, whether to interact with customers and suppliers, with intellectual leaders on broad topics or, in an informal environment, with the representatives of governments and multilateral authorities who attend. Nothing is deliberated, of course, but over time the forum has established a reputation as a stage from which announcements ar ...

- Brazil’s latest tax reform will replace five taxes on consumption with one single VAT to promote greater efficiency and sectoral isonomy. - Forecasts produced by a detailed ICGE model point to sizeable gains in GDP exceeding 4% in the long run, even if spatially unequal. - Exceptions to the rules reduce potential benefits in efficiency terms. - Policies meant to promote regional development and close the gap deepened by the reform partially achieve their goal at the expense of ...

The Africa Economic Symposium (AES) is the Policy Center for the New South’s new major conference, alongside the renowned Atlantic Dialogues and the African Peace and Security Annual Conference (APSACO). AES aspires to be a continent-wide annual gathering of prominent economists, policymakers, and academics, which will bring together global and continental perspectives on the issues shaping the future of Africa’s economic development. The global economy is going through a period of ...