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Education Mismatch in North Africa: Determinants and Impact

09/09/2019 | FEMISE reports
Publié en septembre 2019. Rédigé par Moundir Lassassi, Mohamed Ali Marouani. The uprising of 2011 in many Arab countries have highlighted the vulnerability and fragility of their labor markets, characterized by high unemployment rates, especially for young people. The lack of job opportunities for...

Labour supply, education and migration in south mediterranean countries

06/03/2019 | EMNES reports
Publié en juin 2019. Rédigé par Cinzia Alcidi, Nadzeya Laurentsyeva The analysis of labour supply in South Mediterranean Countries indicates that only a package of long term policies can foster employment creation. The quality of education systems needs to be improved to deliver good employees for...

Institutions failing to play their role in the Southern Mediterranean job market

Institutions failing to play their role in the Southern Mediterranean job market
04/23/2018 - Frédéric Dubessy | Development models in Mediterranean

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Do Exports and Innovation Matter for the Demand of Skilled Labor? Evidence from MENA Countries

04/03/2018 | EMNES reports
Publié en avril 2018. rédigé par Nora Aboushady, Chahir Zaki The objective of the paper is to test the impact of exports and innovation on the demand of skilled labor in the MENA region using firm-level data. In this matter, our contribution is threefold. First, we examine the connection between...

Economic Analysis of Supply Functions, Private Returns to Investment in Education and Skill Mismatch in Egypt

04/03/2018 | EMNES reports
Publié en avril 2018. Rédigé par Marwa Biltagy The main objective of this paper is to estimate the demand and supply functions for schooling in Egypt using the data of the Egypt Labour Market Panel Survey 2012. It is concluded that, the number of years of schooling and the family...

"We need to educate people about citizenship"

"We need to educate people about citizenship"
05/15/2015 | Society
With the support of the Secretariat of the UfM

The "Forming responsible citizens" project, which has been approved by the Union for the Mediterranean and is founded on a government/NGO partnership, aims to contribute to instilling values of interdependent and sustainable development, freedom and gender equality from school age.

Medpro details its visions for the Euro-Mediterranean in 2030

Medpro details its visions for the Euro-Mediterranean in 2030
07/25/2013 - Frédéric Dubessy | Mediterranean 2030


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Urban Development as a building block of democracy

Urban Development as a building block of democracy
10/30/2012 - Frédéric Dubessy avec la BEI | Euro-Mediterranean projects
“Urbanisation is a major challenge for democratic transition in the Mediterranean”, says Henry Marty-Gauquié, Director – Links with International Organisations and representative of the European Investment Bank group (EIB), Paris. Revolutions, evolutions, Mediterranean countries are committing...

Young people, the key to the Mediterranean

Young people, the key to the Mediterranean
10/16/2012 - Nathalie Bureau du Colombier | Socio-economic assessments
Yusuf Kocoglu, Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Applied Economics for Development (LEAD), at the University of Sud Toulon-Var helped draw up the annual FEMISE report for 2011 on the Euro-Mediterranean partnership. In the document entitled “A new Mediterranean region: towards achieving...

Health and education attract foreign investors to the Mena countries over the long term

Health and education attract foreign investors to the Mena countries over the long term
10/15/2012 - Marie-Pierre Vega | Socio-economic assessments
Does the social development of the population influence economic performance? A study by Femise, funded by the European Union, sheds light upon the relationship between individual freedoms, degree of openness and foreign direct investments in countries in the Mena region (Middle East and North...

Three long-term scenarios …

Three long-term scenarios …
10/08/2012 - Frédéric Dubessy | Reflections
By Bénédict de Saint-Laurent, advisor at Anima

Public-private partnerships grow in Morocco

Public-private partnerships grow in Morocco
05/24/2011 - Christelle Marot, PARIS | Services / Finances
MOROCCO. Transport, water and electricity distribution, drainage and education: in Morocco, the private provision of a number of public services is becoming more commonplace.

Turkey has experience with PPP

Turkey has experience with PPP
05/24/2011 - Guillaume Perrier, à ISTANBUL | Services / Finances
TURKEY. In Turkey, a growing number of infrastructure projects are financed by PPP. Important amendments to legislation have allowed this model to become commonplace.