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OCP Policy Center, Rabat.

The course focuses on:

• The economics of bulk shipping sector and the microeconomic structure of the four main markets;
• Specific shipping subsectors in conjunction with the transportation requirement of key bulk commodities;
• Principles of logistics and supply chain management and how this brings together key modes of intermodal transportation;
• Economics of electricity markets.

Paris, France 

Séminaire par invitation

HEC Center for Geopolitics et OCP Policy Center ont lancé en 2016, le premier cycle des «Strategic Dialogues», une plateforme d’analyse et de débat stratégique autour des principaux enjeux géopolitiques et sécuritaires internationaux, mais également régionaux revêtant une importance capitale pour les continents européen et africain.

Economic Growth in Morocco: Theories, Evidence and Lessons Learnt From Recent Experiences

L’économie marocaine a enregistré durant la décennie 2000 des taux de croissance assez soutenue de l’ordre de 5% en moyenne, contre près de 3% durant la décennie précédente. Ce passage éventuel vers un nouveau palier s’est accompagné par une relative atténuation de la dépendance de l’économie nationale vis-à-vis de la production agricole et in fine des aléas climatiques. Toutefois, la crise financière 2008-2009, bien que son impact sur l’économie nationale ne fût pas instantané, a vraisemblablement eu des effets négatifs sur la capacité d’offre du pays en présence de signes de ralentissement de la production tendancielle et fait ressortir les limites de la stratégie de croissance, axée sur l’expansion de la demande intérieure, sous l’impulsion d’un taux d’investissement public élevé et d’une progression soutenue des salaires.

Bruegel, Brussels

Bruegel and OCP Policy Center, in partnership with Compagnia di San Paolo, are organizing the second edition of the “Platform for Advanced & Emerging Economies Policy Dialogue” to take place on April 10th and 11th, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium.

A OCP Policy Center, Rabat, par invitation

En collaboration avec l’Institut français du Maroc, OCP Policy Center a le plaisir d’accueillir la présentation du livre «Où va le monde ?» co-écrit par Pascal Lamy, ancien commissaire européen et ancien directeur général de l'OMC, et Nicole Gnesotto, spécialiste de géopolitique, avec Jean Michel Baer, le lundi 10 avril 2017 de 11h à 12h30, au sein des locaux du think tank à Rabat. Face au Brexit et aux tendances nationalistes des politiques du nouveau président américain, les auteurs prônent une redéfinition des missions et des ambitions de l'Europe.

OCP Policy Center, Rabat.

This class tackles the following questions:

• The impacts of carbon tax on energy demand in the industrial sector;
• The impact of high crop prices on the use of agro-chemical inputs (fertilizers, pesticides);
• The evaluation of environmental goods for example wetlands valuation using contingent valuation method, or biodiversity valuation using choice experiment method;
• The study of land use changes and their impact on the environment (biodiversity,Greenhouse Gas Emissions, water quality);
• The emphasis will be put on methodological aspects, notably choosing which econometric model should be estimated to answer the questions, which estimation method should be used, how to tackle endogeneity issues…;
• The econometric methods that will be presented will include: panel data Methods, discrete choice methods, spatial econometrics.

For over the past 30 years of economic reforms (Doi moi), Vietnam has gained major achievement in agricultural development. Thanks to the liberalization policy, from a net food-imported country, Vietnam has become among the top exporters of many agricultural products such as rice, coffee, pepper, etc. Millions of people in the rural areas have been lifted out of chronicle poverty and hunger. The face of the rural areas has been progressively changed. Vietnam’s successful efforts in hunger eradication and poverty alleviation were highly appreciated by the donor community, including the development organizations such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and the United Nations Development Program.  

Rabat, Morocco

The EU-Africa Strategic Dialogue is an international conference co-organized by the European Union Institute For Security Studies and the OCP Policy Center, in cooperation with Compagnia di San Paolo, in the context of the “African Futures” project. The objective is to explore possible African trends and scenarios with a horizon of 10 to 15 years, i.e. the end of the next decade, focusing on what is likely to happen in terms of demography, economy and society, governance, international relations and security – and how all this is expected to affect Europe. 30 countries, 40 international institutions and 40 Moroccan organisations will be represented in the EU-Africa Strategic Dialogue. 80 Experts from both continents will share, during the conference, their respective views on a large array of issues of common interest.

OCP Policy Center, Rabat.

This course will examine:

• Globalization and its security implications for individual states, international order etc., also: The state as actor in International relations;
• Interrelated concepts of collective Security, collective defense, cooperative security, crisis reaction;
• The United Nations system under pressure to reform;
• EU and NATO as regional security organizations with a global outlook;
• Arab and African organizations in globalized security policy.

OCP Policy Center, Rabat

While the first months of 2017 in Morocco were characterized by the country’s historic diplomatic feat in re-joining the African Union, and its positive willingness of integrating the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS), it is safe to say that the atmosphere was quite different in the Northern hemisphere. For both the European Union and the US, 2016 has proven to be a grim year, particularly in light of the populist wave that swept through the West. This has led the UK to opt for Brexit, a situation that has come as a surprise to the international community, and Americans to vote for a businessman as their 45^th president. Donald J. Trump, the said businessman, has no previous political experience, and ran a controversial campaign that places protectionism at the heart of his economic strategy. This, in conjunction with the general leitmotif of making America great again, will make for a dangerous rollercoaster ride in the land of uncertainty.