AES 2023 - Présentation du rapport - Rapport annuel sur l'économie africaine / Discours de clôture

This paper was originally published on tandfonline.com   This paper explores new pathways to women's empowerment, including household structure, family support, satisfaction and self-esteem, and trust in institutions and politicians, and their impact on labor market participation, with a specific focus on gender differences. Using a microeconomic database of 7,860 individuals from North Africa and employing a Probit model, we find that gender significantly influences lab ...

This paper was originally published on erf.org.eg   The digital divide in the financial sector has occurred through the development of financial technologies. These latest “FinTech” refers to technological innovations that have emerged in the financial system in recent years, which are the new channels for providing financial services. These innovations have disrupted traditional financing models by making financial transactions more secure and by reducing spatiotemporal ...

L’amélioration de la qualité des apprentissages constitue un défi majeur pour le système éducatif marocain. D’après de nombreuses évaluations, aussi bien qualitatives que quantitatives, le Maroc se place parmi les pays les moins performants en matière de qualité des acquis scolaires. Un autre aspect des faibles réalisations du pays au niveau des tests internationaux est le poids des élèves dits « peu performants1 », et considérés comme particulièrement à risque. L’importance de ce ...

This report was originally published on openknowledge.worldbank.org The long-standing informality debate in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region has taken on a new urgency as it looks for a pathway to more socially inclusive growth that is less reliant on fossil fuels. This is occurring against a backdrop of subpar labor market outcomes, further growth setbacks, and deteriorating fiscal and current account de ficits in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic—and in the wak ...

This policy brief was originally published on T20 India website   A decade of poor growth, increased poverty, and political instability followed the serious debt difficulties that emerged worldwide in the 1980s. There are concerns that the looming debt crisis could create similar challenges and result in even more severe consequences. However, the current economic climate differs in many ways from that of the 1980s, when international banks and Paris Club credi ...

Le Salon international de l’édition et du livre (SIEL), dont la 28ème édition  s’est achevée le 11 juin 2023, a une fois de plus été l'occasion pour le ‘’petit’’ monde de l'édition de s'interroger sur son avenir. Les rencontres du SIEL ont réuni les différents maillons de la chaîne de production du livre, des auteurs aux éditeurs en passant par les acteurs de la distribution et de la promotion. C’est l’une des rares occasions de prendre le pouls des transformations de cette cha ...

The targeting of public policies, particularly those related to the reform of the social protection system in Morocco, is a major challenge, especially in assessing the impact of these measures on multidimensional poverty. By developing two targeting methods to approach the impact of the reform of the social protection system in Morocco on multidimensional poverty as measured by the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), we show that the three simulated reforms on education and healt ...