Tag: mena

MENA Integration Needed for Security

December 23, 2013

Because of the mounting security situation in the region of Sahel, closer cooperation and integration in Maghreb is needed. According to the final concluding remarks ... Read More

Tackling Youth Unemployment in Morocco

December 14, 2013

Morocco seems to be fulfilling the promise it made to its citizens about two years ago – it has just embarked on a long journey ... Read More

Morocco’s longstanding relationship with MENA, Africa Opens New Avenues for U.S.-Morocco cooperation

November 23, 2013

As changes continue to redesign the landscape in the Middle East-North Africa region and in Africa, Morocco’s longstanding, friendly relationships with these two regions open ... Read More

Egypt the Least Gender-Friendly Country in the MENA Region

November 17, 2013

According to the “gender” survey of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the position of women has deteriorated throughout the region of North Africa and Middle East ... Read More

World Bank and North Africa: 2013 in Review

November 14, 2013

In fiscal year 2013, the World Bank (WB) has supported 16 projects worth 2.1 billion USD, out of which 1.8 billion USD came from the ... Read More

Moroccan Nizar Baraka, Finance Minister of the Year 2013

October 17, 2013

After he had been elected best Finance Minister for the MENA region for 2012 and Minister of Finance of the year 2012 by the «The ... Read More

‘Halal Economy’ in Global Markets: An Unstoppable Rise

September 29, 2013

The Islamic economy has for long been associated with the Islamic financial law. Based on the moral code and religious law of Islam – shari’a ... Read More

Sources of Wealth Inequality in MENA Region

August 4, 2013

Simon Kuznets’ inverted U-shaped curve representing the hypothesis that with economic growth country’s inequality level initially increases and then decreases after reaching certain average income ... Read More

Libya: Oil production slows down

June 14, 2013

The production of oil in the leading oil production country in Africa has suffered a drastic decline since its civil war in 2011. The ongoing ... Read More

Catch-22: Europe’s Sovereign Debt Crisis and its Impact on the MENA Economies Revisited

March 17, 2013

The sovereign debt crisis is often being called the mother of all problems, especially those with no-win solutions (or double-win of any sort for that ... Read More