Events

12:00 - 14:00, Bruegel, Bruxelles

Par Pierre-Richard Agénor et Karim El Aynaoui

Bruegel, in collaboration with OCP Policy Center, will host a presentation on March 5th 2015 at the Bruegel office in Brussels. The theme of the convening is “Growth Strategies in the MENA Region and Implications for Europe.” Two leading scholars from OCP Policy Center will present a new publication “Morocco: Growth Strategy for 2025 in an Evolving International Environment.” 

17:30 - 19:30, OCP Policy Center, Rabat

OCP Policy Center will host a presentation of the first International Jobs Report, a major result of a joint collaboration of OCP Policy Center with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

In partnership with OCP Policy Center, the Compagnia di San Paolo, and Noble Energy, the German Marshall Fund of the United States held its 10th Mediterranean Strategy Group (MSG) meeting in Naples, Italy under the theme “The United States & The Mediterranean: Past, Present and Future”.

MSG is the core convening activity of GMF’s Mediterranean policy program and the theme of this meeting was the evolving role of the U.S. in the Mediterranean, addressing topics such as trade and investment, regional security, and the outlook for transatlantic partnership in the Mediterranean. Around 40 experts and officials from the public and private sectors on both sides of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean met for two days of informal roundtable style discussion under the Chatham House rule.

17h30  - 19h00, OCP Policy Center, Rabat

Over the last 15 years, the assumption that manufacturing is the golden path to development has been turned on its head. Developing countries have grown rapidly until very recently, yet they are deindustrializing almost as rapidly as advanced countries. Several traditional and modern service sectors have become not only the most important source of jobs, but also of good, high paying jobs. Productivity in the service sector is advancing as fast or faster than in manufacturing in many instances, and information technologies have made many services tradable. Countries across the developing world can now rely on migrant remittances as a significant and stable source of foreign currency earnings. At the same time, high prices of commodities have made the natural resource sector a much more important source of exports than manufactures in many developing countries. Do these trends hold out hope for countries that have made only limited inroads in manufacturing? Should countries still privilege manufacturing in their development policy? How does Morocco fit in this picture?