Back

Les Mardis du PCNS 26/05/2020 : دور الإعلام في ظل أزمة كورونا

May 26, 2020
Related topics: 
Sectorial policies and structural transformation
Society
Speakers
Imane Lahrich
Head – Research Valorization
Imane Lahrich is the Head of Research Valorization Department, having previously served as a Partnerships & Research Support Officer at the Policy Center for the New South since 2019. She mainly worked on security-development related projects. She has experience as a Project Manager in a Strategic Intelligence firm (2017-2019) and as a research consultant in the MENA region, focusing on international development and the Rule of Law. Imane Lahrich holds a Master's in Political Studies and a Bachelor's in Political Science from Mohammed V University of Rabat. She also participated in a one-year exchange program at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic under the EMMAG MUNDUS Excellence scholarship.     ...

RELATED CONTENT

  • Download PDF
    Tunisie : la démocratie à l’épreuve de la transition économique
    Authors
    Abdessalam Saad Jaldi
    Abdessalam Saad Jaldi
    April 26, 2021
    La Tunisie a fêté récemment le 10ème anniversaire de la révolution qui a mis fin à l’ancien régime bénalien et défini les principes de la IIème République. Ayant pour principales doléances la croissance économique et la justice sociale, la révolution tunisienne était exclusivement sociale. Or, l’appropriation de la révolution par l’Assemblée nationale constituante (ANC) et le quartet du dialogue national qui ont privilégié le chantier des réformes démocratiques au détriment des réfo ...
  • Download PDF
    The Impact of New Technologies on Employment and the Workforce: What are the Implications for Developing Countries, Especially in Africa?
    Authors
    Hamza Saoudi
    March 24, 2021
    This report is part of a partnership between the Policy Center for the New South and the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center.   New technologies, such as automation, artificial intelligence and industrial robots, are often seen as a real danger for existing jobs and also for future job-creation prospects. There is a perception that they will make work redundant and lead to massive job destruction. However, others believe that automation, like previous technological waves , ...
  • Download PDF
    Brazil Agriculture—Response and resilience of food security under dual shocks in 2020: Oil price collapse and the COVID-19 pandemic
    Authors
    Isabelle Tsakok
    March 3, 2021
    Brazil, an oil-exporting nation, was still struggling to recover from the depression which started around 2014/15 when it was hit by a quick succession of shocks: the COVID-19 pandemic and the oil price collapse. The global pandemic triggered major economic dislocations and contractions in foreign and domestic markets, which further exacerbated the fall in demand for oil, sending world prices tumbling further. Poverty was already widespread in Brazil pre-pandemic. And despite recen ...
  • The future of trade agreements
    Abdelaaziz Ait Ali et Marcus Vinicius de Freitas
    March 02, 2021
    The Covid-19 pandemic has severely damaged the global economy. Confinement policies, global value chains disruption and risk aversion in the financial systems markets have brought the glo ...
  • Download PDF
    African Cities in Times of COVID-19: Resilience against all Odds
    Authors
    Paola Maniga
    Yassine Moustanjidi
    February 15, 2021
    The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed new vulnerabilities in social, infrastructure, and governance systems. In the first months of the pandemic, there was a genuine concern about the capacity of the Global South to contain the spread of the virus. African cities were particularly vulnerable, with some experts1, including the head of WHO2, predicting a catastrophe for the continent. Despite the structural and chronic challenges that African cities face, including informality, poverty, a ...
  • Download PDF
    Africa’s Development Issues After Covid-19
    Authors
    Hinh T. Dinh
    February 12, 2021
    This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19’s impact on Africa, focusing on the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries, based on information available as of October 2020. We first identify the two key long-term issues of the SSA countries before the crisis: resource dependency and slow productivity growth. COVID-19 has hit SSA countries hard, causing human and economic destruction and wiping out economic progress from the last decade. Instead of growing at 2.9% in 2020, as ...
  • L’Economie du Sport au Maroc
    January 27, 2021
    Fédérateur et vecteur d’inclusion, le sport est mentionné dans l’Agenda 2030 pour le développement durable : il contribue à la paix, à l’autonomisation des femmes et des jeunes ainsi qu’à l’atteinte des Objectifs de développement durable (ODD) en matière de santé, d’éducation et de cohé...