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Add to Calendar 08/05/2017 09:00 12/05/2017 17:00 Africa/Casablanca Advanced Training in Commodity Economics & Finance | Agricultural Economics & Environment - Government Policies, Food Security and International Commodity markets OCP Policy Center, Rabat. This course proposes an analysis of agricultural and food policies with an emphasis on price volatility and governments› responses to it. This course is organized as a series of lectures of 1.5 to 3 hours and alternates between lectures on the economics of public policies and on case studies of actual policies. The goal is to explain the reasons of publi... OCP Policy Center, Rabat OCP Policy Center contact@ocppc.ma false DD/MM/YYYY
Monday, May 8, 2017 - 09:00 to Friday, May 12, 2017 - 17:00

Advanced Training in Commodity Economics & Finance | Agricultural Economics & Environment - Government Policies, Food Security and International Commodity markets

OCP Policy Center, Rabat.

This course proposes an analysis of agricultural and food policies with an emphasis on price volatility and governments› responses to it. This course is organized as a series of lectures of 1.5 to 3 hours and alternates between lectures on the economics of public policies and on case studies of actual policies. The goal is to explain the reasons of public interventions (arising from economic motivations and political economy), and to use economic theory to explain and predict the effects of public policies.

Objectives :

Learning :
• The actual and theoretical motivations for public interventions in agricultural markets;
• How to analyze public policies in commodity markets;
• What are the direct and indirect effects of public policies.

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About the Speaker :

  • Christophe Gouel

    Christophe Gouel is an economist INRA laboratory. He worked at the World Bank (2011-2012) and the CEPII (2006-2008) on the coordination of agricultural trade policies to limit the volatility of food prices. Christophe Gouel has a PhD in economics from the Ecole Polytechnique. His research interests are mainly on trade policies, agricultural policies and development of the MIRAGE model.