Interview avec Dominique Bocquet, Senior Fellow, au sujet du BREXIT

Nowadays, links between development and security are widely recognized by many, just as they were during the development of the Marshall Plan. As mentioned in the United Nations "A More Secure World" report, threats to one are intrinsically a threat to all. Thus, 17 UN-agreed goals were agreed upon to help end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all by 2030, including goal 16 for "peaceful and inclusive societies". Last month, the UN’s inaugural Africa Dialogue S ...

Le séminaire de haut niveau, organisé par OCP Policy Center ce 2 novembre 2018 à Rabat, est axé sur « La migration : réconcilier les visions du Nord et du Sud ».  Il sera question dans cette rencontre, organisée en partenariat avec le Ministère délégué auprès du ministre des Affaires étrangères et de la Coopération internationale, Chargé des Marocains résidant à l’étranger, des affaires de la migration et l’IeMED, de la coopération internationale pour « lever les obstacle ...

A decade ago, the world faced the prospect of the next Great Depression. The worst did not come to pass. In the 1930s, the unemployment went up to 25% in some countries. This time the average unemployment rate for advanced economies did increase sharply to over 8% in 2010 from 5 ½ % in 2007 but has since slowly returned to its level before crisis, as shown in Fig. 1 (International Jobs Report 2017). ...

Historians often offer different interpretations of the events that have shaped our destiny, yet, with respect to World War 2, the bloodiest conflict in history, they seem to concur on two points. First, that those yearning for peace underestimated the National Socialists’ determination to wage a war of conquest until it was far too late to deter them, and, second, that Nazi Germany failed to anticipate that Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union – each of which it provok ...

The spike in US bond yields since mid-April in tandem with the strengthening of the dollar sparked a retrenchment of capital flows to emerging markets (EM), accompanied by a sell-off of assets in some cases. Argentina and Turkey suffered from strong and potentially disruptive exchange rate depreciation pressures in May, with financial markets calming down only after bold domestic policy moves (interest rate hikes in both countries and, in the case of Argentina, a decision to seek a ...

Avec la refonte des relations entre l’Union Européenne et les pays ACP (Afrique, Caraïbes et Pacifique), prévue pour février 2020, il devient urgent de repenser le cadre du partenariat entre l’Europe et l’Afrique et de proposer des éléments de refondation d’un vouloir vivre collectif. Priorité éducative, création d’emplois pour les jeunes via le développement territorial, promotion des partenariats publicprivé dans les infrastructures, comptent parmi les leviers d’actions possibles. ...

Le partenariat Afrique Europe fait son chemin depuis l'adoption de la stratégie commune Afrique-UE et la négociation complexe des Accords de Partenariat Economiques. L’évaluation des volets commercial, financier et humain de ces relations multidimensionnelles fait ressortir la persistance de grands déséquilibres dans les échanges commerciaux de biens et services, des tensions dans la gestion de la mobilité humaine et des dysfonctionnements dans les mécanismes institutionnels de part ...

Destination-based business cash-flow taxes have received a great deal of attention and are being widely considered as a replacement for traditional, origin-based, corporate taxes. These taxes combine the strong revenue-raising ability of a VAT with an enormously expensive tax deduction for wages. They would certainly be attractive to foreign investors by eliminating the burden of current corporate taxes. However, adopting them at the rates typically discussed would raise consumer pr ...

A un moment où l’Afrique renforce son attractivité, se dote de son propre récit et suscite l’intérêt de nouveaux partenaires, et où l’Europe traverse une crise économique et institutionnelle importante, quelles peuvent être les bases nouvelles du partenariat Union Européenne-Afrique ? Si le dernier sommet d’Abidjan, en novembre dernier, a mis l’accent sur la priorité éducative, l’appui au développement durable et inclusif, une coopération multi-secteurs, tout cela sur la base d’une ...

President Trump’s proclamation that, because of national security concerns, he will apply a 25% tariff on all steel and a 10% tariff on all aluminium imports into the United States – except provisionally and dependent on NAFTA negotiations those from Canada and Mexico – affects, respectively 5.1 billion Euros and 1.1 billion Euros of EU exports. These are not trivial sums. However, the invocation of the national security exception in this case has implications that go far beyond nar ...