Events

OCP Policy Center, Rabat.

The course covers the microeconomic principles used to evaluate the benefits and costs of alternative public policies. In addition to supply, demand, and market processes, the course covers other topics that inform public sector decisions, such as welfare effects of market-oriented policies, trade policy instruments, market structure, public goods, and externalities.

Organized by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

By Invitation only.

OCP Policy Center is a key partner for the Brussels Forum organized by German Marshall Fund of the United States between March 23^rd and 25^th, 2017 in Brussels.

OCP Policy Center, Rabat.

The Course will outline what constitutes intellectual property (IP), its value to states, organizations and individuals and how it can be threatened in the digital age. It will examine the nature of the developing threats through cyber space and how these challenge the security of IP as well as other aspects of infrastructure through disruption, destruction and denial. It will then outline the key elements of a coherent approach to a cyber-security strategy recognizing the importance of the human dimension as well as the technical.

Centre Links, Casablanca

Le Centre LINKS et OCP Policy Center organisent en partenariat la présentation du Global Economic Outlook par Dr. Uri Dadush, Senior Fellow à l’OCP Policy Center le 14 mars 2017 à 15h dans les locaux du centre LINKS à Casablanca.

OCP Policy Center, Rabat.

The course will have as its focus investment decision-making in the mining sector. It will begin with an introduction to the mining sector and its key economic characteristics. It will then look more closely at the organisations that make investment decisions in mining, the principles that guide those decisions and the processes that shape them. It will also look at how investments in the mining sector are financed, how government policies affect them and consider the development impacts of mining investments.

London, United Kingdom

While Europe is struggling with one of its worst migrant crisis in modern times, government officials, policy-makers, and the international community are increasingly urged to look at other strategies to tackle this increasingly pressing humanitarian and security dilemma. Controversial methods of closing down the borders and deporting illegal enterers are just not enough to deal with the reality of the push factors that represent the true motives behind these migration flows. With development, stability and security increasingly seen as being interconnected, this conference series will explore the economic, political and security challenges to Africa and ask whether it is time for Europe and the UK following the Brexit, to treat Africa as more than simply a security issue to be managed.

Paris, France

Context

In 2014, the deceleration of global growth trends revealed wide disparities between emerging countries. While the big emerging countries face a decline in their growth potential, smaller ones continue to show resilience and drive in what seems to be a difficult international grid.

OCP Policy Center, Rabat.

The course examines:

• The Ways in which opening to trade can help raise incomes in both importing and exporting countries;
• The policy approaches used by developing country policy makers to manage and regulate agricultural trade;
• The use of protection to raise domestic output, and reduce domestic consumption, and policies to reduce the cost of food to urban consumers;
• The use of variable rates of protection to stabilize domestic prices relative to world market prices in individual countries;
• The collective action problems resulting from use of trade policies to raise and stabilize domestic prices.

OCP Policy Center, Rabat

Quantitative assessments of Public Policies are becoming increasingly requested for different programs, particularly those public related to economic and social development. These evaluations are intended to determine, ex-post, if a program has reached its goals. They also test the effectiveness of different strategies to achieve specific outcomes. This course is actually composed of two parts (I and II) which are complementary and which should preferably be taken together. The two parts are advanced theoretical and practical introduction to the main econometric evaluation methods of impact.

Context

Defining power is complex and ambiguous but understanding its elements and implications on national and foreign policies remains central to the study of international relations. Both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ powers are employed to pursue political and strategic goals through military, economic, diplomatic and others ways of conquering hearts and minds, to create convincing incentives and exercise influence.