Tunisie : la démocratie à l’épreuve de la crise de la IIème République
La crise de la IIème République tunisienne exacerbe l’incapacité des institutions de représentation démocratique à prendre en compte les demandes...
The Socio-Economic and Political Dynamics Around Migration in Morocco
The geographic position of Morocco and its history makes it a strategic country when it comes to matters of international migration. Having long been...
The Energy Crisis of 2021 and its Implications for Africa
Energy markets have experienced significant disruptions since the outbreak of COVID-19. In late 2021, soaring natural gas prices triggered a new...
COVID-19 & Developing Countries—the Road to Recovery
COVID-19 has ravaged nearly every country in the world, with the globalization of recent decades intensifying its spread. As of mid-2021, the world...
I am the last and only dictator of Europe
His message was one of reassurance, just as a great leader has to react in a crisis. The concerns about Covid 19 was nothing but “a frenzy and...
Argentina Avoids Falling into Arrears with the IMF
On January 28, both Argentina’s government and the...
Morocco's Natural Gas discoveries of early 2022: What to make of it?
In January 2022, two UK-based oil companies, Chariot Limited and Predator Oil & Gas Holdings PLC, made positive announcements on two gas...
ما الذي يعنيه اكتشاف الغاز الطبيعي في المغرب مطلع 2022؟
في يناير/كانون الثاني 2022، أعلنت شركتا التنقيب عن النفط والغاز، شاريوت ليمتد وبريداتور أويل آند غاز هولدينغ، المستقرتان معا في...
A plethora of strategies and plans
It has been more than 100 years since Germany manifested colonial power, a dark period of history indeed. Political and military leaders,...
How Can Data Collection Help Inclusive Green Finance?
Setting the Scene for the Current State of Inclusive Green Finance
Climate change is one of, if not the...
It’s going to be hell on earth
Time was running out. The invisible, enemy combatants floated into the capital like ghosts. Unopposed, ready to take power, twenty years after...
Will emerging economies face a hard landing?
The year began with simultaneous signs of a slowdown in global economic growth and a reorientation toward tightening of monetary policies in...
Green Finance Taxonomies: Measuring which Economic Activities Deserve to be Called Green
Why Green Finance Taxonomies?
The increasing effort to mitigate climate change has caused more and more individuals,...
Découvertes de gaz naturel au Maroc au début 2022 : que faut-il en penser ?
En janvier 2022, deux sociétés pétrolières, Chariot Limited et Predator Oil & Gas Holdings PLC, toutes les deux basées au Royaume-Uni, ont...
Jessica Gottsleben, the Urge to Serve
This energetic and straightforward young American leader has made a crucial choice in life: to accomplish her mission the way she sees it, and...
Youssef Kobo, a proud “Seat at the Table”
“Entrepreneurial, curious, energetic”. This is how Youssef Kobo, a Belgian citizen coming from a Moroccan family, would describe himself in three...
They spit on the history of France
Lucy Williamson, a BBC reporter on assignment in the southern French town Béziérs, was surprised when she observed about a hundred people lined up...
Is the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism a Threat for Developing Countries?
As part of the lengthy fight against climate change, the European Union (EU) has introduced a Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), among its...
Falcons and fighter jets
Feeble eyesight may hinder you from finding Puntland on a map, the unrecognized Federal member state in Somalia, Khaatumo State, Jubaland, or...
Le Mozambique devrait devenir un exportateur de GNL dans moins d’un an
A la fin avril 2021, Total (aujourd’hui TotalEnergies) annonçait le retrait de son personnel du site d’Afungi, dans le nord-est du Mozambique, et...
Until you plant a tree, you haven't done anything
In life, all forests seem magical, feels Thoralya Dyer, an Australian writer. Dwarfs and ghosts floating above the autumn leaves; Robin Hood, the...
Afrique : trois grands projets pétroliers progressent en vue d’une mise en production dans les prochaines années
En dépit de toutes les critiques contre les énergies fossiles au niveau international, plusieurs projets pétroliers et gaziers continuent à être...
Purpose Driven Companies and the Regulation of the Fourth Sector in Morocco
The Policy Center for The New South (PCNS) joined an inter-institutional effort between the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), the United...
The folly of humanity
Simon Kofe, the Foreign Minister in charge of Communication and Justice of Tuvalu, a 25.9 square miles’ nation located in the South Pacific, was...
Weathering the Changing Needs to Regulate Financial Inclusion
A Case for Regulators to Green Financial Inclusion
Financial Inclusion is an Excellent Tool for Combating Poverty...
A Relapse into conflict?
How do you treat a brutal dictator who had lost power after 42 years, hiding in a drainpipe, after his convoy was attacked by fighter jets from...
ADEL Portrait : Jessica Berlin, a free agent filling the gaps
This political analyst, expert in security issues and international development, describes her personality as « down to earth, curious », and not...
Le cours de l’étain atteint des records historiques !
Dans le vaste univers des matières premières, il est commun de parler des « métaux de base » pour qualifier les « grands » métaux non ferreux que...
No Intention of Backing Down
The Polish memory of oppression, occupation, the holocaust, Nazi occupation, and communist dictators is burned into the national soul and...
ADEL Portrait : Juan Diego Mujica Filippi
This impact-driven young Peruvian legal scholar studies and advocates for the redesign of Corporate Law internationally through innovation for...
Between a tolerable status quo and a disastrous conflict
Not all is quiet on the Chinese/Chinese front. Warships are sailing through the Taiwan Strait. One day, an American missile guided US destroyer,...
ADEL Portrait : Joana Ama Osei-Tutu, Gender Without Borders
This young and outspoken Ghanaian citizen, a peace and security expert with a focus on gender, describes herself as “engaging, accomodating...
Our entire democracy is at risk
Richard Blumenthal, the US Democratic Senator from Connecticut, was shaken by the testimonies of top officials of the Department of Justice during...
Edna Valencia Murillo, a life changed by the Atlantic Dialogues
In her very energetic way and a waterfall of words, Edna Valencia Murillo explains how the Atlantic Dialogues 2019 have been a life changer. At...
Double plus ungood
Hisham Aidi chose a diplomatic version for fading freedom, growing populism, mental torture, perversion of truth and imprisonment- turning his...
Le Soudan à la croisée des chemins
Près de trois ans après l’éviction d’el-Béchir du pouvoir et la formation d’un gouvernement de transition, composé de civils et de militaires, la...
Ready for the long haul
Olaf Scholz had no time to enjoy the beauty of the Canale Grande-one of the most treasured tourist sights on the globe. In July of this year,...
Hugs are Allowed and Planes are Flying
The modern offices are flooded with light; some figures in face masks face the empty space, which is embraced by total silence. The air...
Could the U.S. and China Spoil Latin America’s Rebound?
A slowdown in China and winding down of U.S. stimulus threaten a much-needed regional rebound.
The news is grim
The rhythm of samba is being replaced by funeral hymns. Almost 560,000 Brazilians (608,000 as of October 31,2021) have succumbed to COVID-19, the...
Decarbonizing the economy: a view from the South
This article was initially published on globaldev.blog in ...
This is a coup d’etat
« ItalyGate », that was it, the key to unravel the conspiracy, « the greatest scandal in the history of the United States », as Donald Trump...
Supply Chain Disruptions and Bottlenecks Dampen the Global Economic Recovery
Scarcity of inputs and goods has been felt all over the world because of disruptions to global value chains since the beginning of the pandemic....
Largely inadequate to manage the challenges we face
How close are we to the apocalypse, human culture, democracy, wisdom, thrown back in time and reduced to the mind of Neanderthals? Remember them,...
The World’s Most Famous Political Prisoner
Some of the golden Buddhas seemed to smile; many of the 2200 pagodas and temples surviving in the ancient city were fighting the damage of time...
Le plaidoyer de l’Afrique pour le gaz naturel
Quelques jours avant le début de la COP 26 à Glasgow, en Ecosse, la Commission africaine de l’énergie (AFREC) (a) a voulu souligner que le gaz...
The World is on Fire
Catastrophic Consequences
Increasing wildfires, a sign of climate change, are reducing forests to ashes. This year alone,...
Angela Merkel: il était une fois une femme leader sur la scène internationale
Le mandat d’Angela Merkel est arrivé à son terme, après 16 ans au pouvoir en tant que chancelière de l’Allemagne. Au cours de sa carrière, Angela...
The Alarm Bells are Deafening
Minus 50 degrees Celsius is a challenge for human beings who were not raised in the Arctic, becoming familiar with polar bears and dog sleds. Plus...
Permanent Output Losses From the Pandemic
In the World Economic Outlook,...
A “dream born in a poor child”
The music was as dramatic and emotional as the adventure. Dennis Tito, named by BBC news “the spaceman” (April 28, 2001) on his personal...
Pétrole et gaz au Sénégal : cap sur 2023
Dans une Opinion publiée par le Policy Center for the New South le 27 septembre à propos d’une récente découverte d’hydrocarbures en Côte d’Ivoire...
A Tragedy Unfolds in Front of our Eyes
If any proof was needed that change was in the air and repression on the horizon, it was in the center of Kabul: a simple sign was changed, the...
Banque mondiale : pourquoi il faut sauver le rapport Doing Business
Annoncé le 16 septembre dernier, l’arrêt définitif de l’enquête annuelle sur le climat des affaires est une erreur. Véritable référence pour l’...
Éthiopie : l’inquiétant impact économique et social du conflit au Tigré
Seconde nation la plus peuplée d’Afrique après le Nigeria, l’Éthiopie se distingue par un essor économique continu depuis trente ans. Des progrès...
The Indian Diaspora in Africa: An instrument of New Delhi’ Soft Power in the Continent
The role played by diasporas in international relations should not be neglected. Bilateral engagements between states can be significantly...
Élections en Allemagne : un changement sans rupture
Le monde a toujours prêté une attention particulière aux élections en Allemagne, statut de géant économique européen de ce pays, oblige. Mais les...
Guerre aux migrants…et à leurs concitoyens: La limitation du nombre des visas français accordés aux citoyens des pays du Maghreb franchit une ligne rouge
Les faits ont été largement relayés par la presse : le mardi 28 septembre, le porte-parole du gouvernement français, Gabriel Attal, confirmait sur...
Découverte de pétrole en Côte d’Ivoire : cinq points clés
L’Afrique a un important potentiel pétrolier et gazier, lequel est largement sous-exploité. On ne sera donc pas étonné par le fait que plusieurs...
Servitude and Protest Movements in the Sahel
Voice, Accountability, and the COVID-19 Death Count
Official statistics record more than 4.6 million people as dying of COVID-19 across the world, a population roughly equal to that of New Zealand....
ADEL Portrait : Bushra Ebadi, social innovator
Bushra Ebadi speaks fast, in an even tone and a very articulate way. This social innovator, a strong personality raised in Mississauga (Canada) by...
Focus sur le gazoduc Maghreb-Europe
La récente rupture des relations diplomatiques entre l’Algérie et le Maroc a remis au centre de l’actualité un important projet gazier, le gazoduc...
Revitalizing the Africa-EU Partnership
Investing in China: myths and realities
Concerns are real, but the country fares as well as peers at similar levels of development
As Reliable as Kalashnikovs
When Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez tested positive for COVID-19 on his 62nd birthday, April 2, 2021 it might not have seemed unusual...
ADEL Portrait : Richard Seshie
This young Ivorian entrepreneur, who has spent 7 years abroad, has moved back home in 2015 to head the local NGO 35.35. Since July 2021, he has...
Five Big Questions on the Global Economic Outlook
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a shock to both demand and supply, leading to the biggest collapse in world output since the Great Depression. Since...
The Road to Decarbonization
The report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
La rupture entre l'Algérie et le Maroc: un saut dans l’inconnu
Le 24 août 2021, le Ministre algérien des Affaires étrangères a convoqué une conférence de presse pour annoncer la rupture des relations...
Le mécanisme européen d’ajustement carbone aux frontières risque de faire plus de mal que de bien
L’Union européenne (UE) a annoncé le 14 juillet une proposition de taxe carbone à ses frontières, qui devrait renchérir les importations de...
Helicopter Reserves to the Rescue
The world woke on Monday August 23 to higher international reserves for all countries....
Confronting the Impossible Without Fear of Dealing With the Worse
There is not much of an argument: some countries in mighty Africa faced and mastered the COVID-19 invasion as efficiently, or even better, than...
L’Afrique ne représentait que 3-4% de la consommation mondiale d’énergie en 2020
Il est bien connu que le poids de l’Afrique sur la scène énergétique mondiale est faible, ce qui est le reflet de son poids économique. En 2020,...
Control of the Nile
The Nile is a monster, at 6,650 kilometers the longest river on the planet. Control of its waters has kept rulers in power for thousands of years...
Après la chute de Kaboul, quel avenir pour le projet de gazoduc TAPI ?
La victoire éclair des Talibans en Afghanistan remet sur le devant de la scène un projet énergétique dont il est question depuis plus de 20 ans....
Ocean of Tears
Abdelhak Bassou is one of the leading national and African security experts. He is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and a...
OPEP, OPEP+ et Afrique
L’actualité pétrolière très chargée de ces derniers mois a mis sur le devant de la scène une entité appelée OPEP+. Ce nom est aujourd’hui...
Global Imbalances and the Pandemic
The International Monetary Fund’s tenth annual ...
Africa for Africans
Pan-Africanism is a dream that never dies. A project of African politicians, united in a vision, as old as the settled Africa, which liberated...
China’s Renminbi Needs Convertibility to Internationalize
On July 21, the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) published its eighth annual report on...
Driven Towards Wealth or Despair
Elon Musk, owner of the electric car company Tesla, declared in February that his company would accept the digital currency Bitcoin, as a payment...
ADEL Portrait : Daniela Varela, an Argentinian leader in international cooperation
With no hesitation, Daniela Varela describes herself as a “good-listener, and a perseverant person with a positive-attitude”. Born and...
Euromed Survey Results | The New EU Agenda for the Southern Mediterranean: Prospects for Morocco
Over 25 years after the launch of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) in the 1995 Barcelona Conference, the Mediterranean...
Forum Génération Égalité : Emmanuel Macron veut faire de la France le pays leader des droits des femmes
Le Forum Génération Égalité s’est tenu, du 30 juin au 2 juillet 2021, à Paris et virtuellement dans le monde entier. Organisée par la France sous...
Matchmaking Private Finance and Green Infrastructure
The world faces a huge shortfall of infrastructure investment relative to its needs. With a few exceptions, such as China, this shortfall is...
ADEL Portrait : Hamza Rkha, dreamer and entrepreneur
After completing his studies abroad, Hamza Rkha co-launched a start-up in 2018 with an associate, at 27 years of age. Their company, named SOWIT,...
Opening Science Through the Decolonization of Knowledge
UNESCO is leading a two-year consultation process to...
Outsourcing Violence
They did not know who the fighters were; the Turkic-language speaking citizens did not understand a word they said. Sure, they were the enemy,...
A Gruesome Picture
The German town of Dinslaken, roughly 70,000 residents, has not really made a mark on history, but the former coal mining community still managed...
La résolution du Parlement européen : l’Espagne à la fois juge et partie
Tribune initialement publiée sur...
It Has its Own Romance and Excitement
For science fiction writers, the universe has no limits. They imagine spacecraft conquering the unknown, the mining of asteroids, access to solar...
Global Recovery May Not Be Enough for Latin America: Three risks threaten another economic and social lost decade for the region
First appeared at AMERICAS QUARTERLY...
The Role of Eco-Industrial Parks in Environmentally-Responsible Economic Growth
In an effort to spur economic growth, industrial parks were created to combine industrial activities with infrastructure, service, and commercial...
The Dire Lack of Governance of the World’s Oceans
For years, no one knew why dozens of battered wooden ghost boats, often with the corpses of North Korean fishermen, whose starved bodies were...
ADEL Portrait : Patricia Ahanda, consultant in leadership
This young French entrepreneur cannot be reduced to a single side of herself. To describe her as the founder of Lydexperience, a training platform...
La Diaspora, une "13ème Région" en faveur du développement socio-économique du Maroc
La Diaspora marocaine, qui compte aujourd’hui près de 5 millions de ressortissants à l’étranger, contribue de manière significative au...
La Unión Europea saca las garras contra Marruecos, ¡qué valentía!
Más allá de los hechos y sus fundamentos, la reacción europea respecto al flujo masivo de migrantes a Sebta revela el verdadero rostro de este...
L’Union européenne sort ses griffes contre le Maroc, quel courage !!
Au-delà des faits et de leurs soubassements, la réaction de l’Union européenne au flux massif de migrants vers Sebta révèle le vrai visage de ce...
Are We on the Verge of a New Commodity Super-Cycle?
Commodity prices have recovered their 2020 losses and, in most cases, are now above pre-pandemic levels (Figure 1). The pace of Chinese growth...
Generous Gesture
The Policy Brief ‘Pandemic, Preparedness, Morocco, and Africa’ by Uri Dadush provoked a personal reaction: Morocco may never be crowned football’s...
Biden’s Surprises
Joe Biden’s victory in the U.S. elections was widely anticipated, and much of what has happened since he took office on January 21 has conformed...
ADEL Portrait : Prince Boadu, a Supply Chain Manager with an African Dream
Born and raised in Accra, Prince Boadu thrives on love and self-confidence. His role models are no other than his wife and two pastors in Ghana,...
Le monde face à l’épidémie du Coronavirus : la nécessité d’un renouveau humaniste
Il y a, désormais, un avant et un après Coronavirus dans le récit de l’histoire de l’humanité de ce XXIème siècle. L’épidémie du Coronavirus...
Turning the Smallest Village into a Classroom
Leonardo Da Vinci’s mechanical knight was a humanoid automaton, designed and possibly constructed by da Vinci around 1495. When a version of the...
Dilemme français, avancées indiennes, désintérêt américain, tassement chinois, appétits russes et turcs… l’état des rivalités de puissance en Afrique
« Les rivalités de puissance en Afrique » ont été décryptées, le 4 mai 2021,...
The Engagement of the United States in the Sahel
The Sahelian states of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso continue to face unprecedented violence arising from multidimensional conflicts. According to...
فاتح ماي بطعم كوفيد: يا عمال الجنوب ، كل عام و أنتم بألف خير
يأتي فاتح مايو من هذا العام في ظرف استثنائي جدا، يتسم بالقلق وعدم اليقين بشأن المستقبل، بعد أن بدت مختلف الحكومات و المنظمات الإقليمية و...
Le Tchad: une transition militaire tolérée, mais confrontée à des embûches internes
Le Général Azem Bermandoa, porte-parole de l’armée tchadienne, a annoncé, le 20 avril 2021, à 11h00, sur les ondes de la télévision, le décès du...
A brief overview of the 2020 Activity Report of the Policy Center for the New South
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of history” (George Orwell)
ADEL Portrait : Hanae Bezad, an entrepreneur with a cause
It is the beard in which all power lies - Molière (1662)
The COVID-19 Virus and the Liberation of Women
It seems not much has changed in almost 400 years since Molière wrote these...
ADEL Portrait : Seleman Kitenge, Project Assistant and Speech Writer for the CEO of AUDA-NEPAD
As a Project Assistant responsible for Speech Writing in the Office of Dr. Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO of the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD,...
Incapacité à converger
Les revenus sur la rive Sud de la Méditerranée sont de l'ordre d'un cinquième à un tiers de ceux de la rive Nord, des ratios qui n'ont pas...
Failure to Converge
Incomes on the southern shores of the Mediterranean are about one-fifth to one-third of those on the northern shore, ratios that have not changed...
The Pandemic Will Leave Scars on the Job Market
All economies affected by the pandemic have something in common. The rate of vaccination of the population—quite different in different countries—...
Un chemin semé d'embûches pour éliminer les subventions des carburants au Nigeria
Depuis la découverte des ressources pétrolières du Nigeria en 1956, le secteur pétrolier a progressivement revêtu une importance considérable,...
A Possible Tug-of-war Between the Fed and the Markets
The projections for United States GDP released by the Federal Reserve on...
A New Evil is Bringing Down the World
It was an illusion. A dream or wishful thinking—and some fake news. Scientists would develop a vaccine at break-neck speed. It would be available...
Resilience Against All Odds
Affluent citizens of Manhattan have been escaping to their beach homes at the famous Hamptons or the picturesque coast of nearby Massachusetts....
L’accord Union européenne-Chine sur l’investissement : un test à double détente
Cet article sera publié dans le numéro 173 de la Revue Commentaire.
Le...
Europe: Time for Intergenerational Solidarity… with the Young
For the last 70 years, the social order in Europe has been based on the concept and practice of inter-generational solidarity. The welfare state...
Covid-19 : l’impact de la crise sur le tourisme en Afrique
L’Afrique a perdu 70 % de ses arrivées touristiques en 2020, selon le dernier baromètre de l’Organisation mondiale du tourisme (OMT), soit un peu...
Dr. Carolina Zuheill Rosales, a Mexican Doctor with a cause
The Covid-19 pandemic has induced a major shift in Carolina Zuheill Rosales’ career. This internal medicine doctor founded Guimedic in 2011, when...
Politique étrangère du Président Biden : l’Iran, un « casse-tête chinois »
L’expression « casse-tête chinois » est empruntée pour décrire toute situation noueuse où s’entrelacent les possibilités de solution et où l’...
The size of Biden’s fiscal package
The monetary policy report submitted by the Board of...
La nouvelle situation en Libye au révélateur VICA De l’espoir mais beaucoup de vulnérabilités
Central Banks and Inequality
While the economic recovery around the world remains uneven, fragile, and unbalanced across sectors, financial markets are generally doing very...
Biden’s Fast Start
The new president of the United States has already issued over 40 executive orders, reversing many of Donald Trump’s most contentious policies...
Cooperation Critical to Reducing Divergent Paths to Recovery in Middle East and Central Asia
This article was originally published on...
La ZLECAF : un engagement en faveur du commerce et d’une transformation structurelle inclusive
L’entrée en vigueur de l’accord instituant la Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine (ZLECAF) s’inscrit dans la continuité des aspirations...
Is Vietnam a Currency Manipulator? Implications for Developing Countries – Comments on the U.S. Treasury Report
WASHINGTON-The December 2020 U.S. Treasury Report (hereafter referred to as the TR) to Congress singled out Vietnam and Switzerland as currency...
A matter of life and death: governments must speed up vaccination
COVID-19 vaccination in Europe and the United States is moving too slowly and is failing to prevent avoidable death and economic disruption. More...
La disparition de DG DEVCO : mauvais temps pour la coopération internationale au développement
La crise sanitaire a porté un coup dur au modèle de la coopération internationale au développement par projets, la modalité la plus répandue....
La théorie des enchères nobélisée
Le Prix Nobel 2020 des Sciences économiques, décerné à Robert B.Wilson et Paul Milgrom, pour leur contribution à « l'amélioration de la...
ADEL Portrait : Jordan Kronen
Bright and open-minded, this young American has already achieved a lot at just 28 years of age. Since February 2019, he has been serving as...
Happy New Year?
This article was originally published on Bruegel
A...
Les trois scénarios possibles au Sahel à l’horizon 2040
Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso… L’insécurité fait tache d’huile au Sahel, menaçant de s’étendre aux pays du Golfe de Guinée. Le terrorisme a entraîné...
The Vaccine, the Economy, and Governance
According to this month’s OECD economic outlook, global GDP --- which took a huge hit from the pandemic and is still 3% below its level of a year...
Swinging the Pendulum: American Foreign Policy at the Apex of Political Polarization
The maxim that in adversity we find unity has never truly materialized following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Despite...
Why a Weaker Dollar Might Be Good for Emerging Markets?
After reaching a peak against other currencies in March this year, the dollar fell by almost 15% until the beginning of December. According to...
They Did Not Want Compromise and Consensus. They Wanted War
“When I got home late that night, the house was dark and Michelle was already asleep. After taking a shower and going through a stack of mail...
L’Union européenne approuve son budget face à la crise : « Eppur si mouve »
Avec du suspense jusqu’à la dernière minute, comme l’Union européenne (UE) aime le faire, le 10 décembre 2020 le Conseil européen a finalement...
The Peaceful Transfer of Power: An Instantaneous Hereditary Principle Steeped in Necessity and Tradition
During the last few weeks, the United States has seen unfold one of its most contentious elections to date, which also registered a record turnout...
The Pandemic Will Reshape Globalization
The pandemic is accelerating history, in the sense that it is leading to the speeding up of some recent trends. In the case of globalization, the...
Middle-Income Countries Should not be Rushed to Graduate
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The End of the Human Race?
Poker is a game for real men, cowboys, for example, ocean divers, stunt men, gambling away their meager pay. Poker is America, as oversized as its...
ADEL Portrait : Idia Irele
“Towards a more impactful leadership”
Fluent in English, Yoruba, Portuguese, and Spanish, this US and Nigerian citizen, holding both...
The two sides of capital flows to Brazil
There was a significant inflow of funds in Brazil's external financial account in October and November for investments in both stocks and...
Regards juridiques sur les élections présidentielles américaines
Le suspens électoral américain s’est achevé le samedi 7 septembre par la victoire du candidat démocrate Joe Biden comme 46ème président des Etats-...
The challenge is, what comes next?
As President elect Biden prepares for the enormous responsibility of becoming President of the United States (US), there is one question I want to...
Fortes impressions d’Egypte dans les mémoires de Barack Obama
« Une terre promise » (Fayard), livre événement de Barack Obama, couvre sa campagne et les trois premières années de sa présidence. L’...
What Could President-Elect Joe Biden’s African Strategy Be?
The Trump Administration “America First” policy changed U.S. foreign policy towards the African continent. Trump opposed trade agreements with...
Le RCEP et le « Quad », deux coups de tonnerre
Coup sur coup, deux accords géants sont venus marquer l’actualité internationale. L’un, est économique et sonne comme un coup de tonnerre : c’est...
Quantitative Easing in Emerging Market Economies
“This time was different” in terms of the monetary policy responses to capital outflow shocks felt by emerging market economies (EMEs),...
BREXIT: Why it is likely to reach an agreement to the finish
On the eve of the final negotiations on ‘‘future relations’’, an agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union (EU) seems likely....
After the Election
Though Donald Trump lost the U.S. presidential election, it didn’t stop him claiming victory soon after the vote closed, and asserting that the...
BREXIT : Pourquoi un accord au finish est probable
A la veille des ultimes négociations sur les « relations futures », un accord entre le Royaume-Uni et l’Union européenne (UE) paraît probable....
Biden : la mécanique du succès
La perspective d’une victoire de Joe Biden s’est heurtée, jusqu’au bout, au scepticisme des observateurs, en raison du précédent de 2016 : ils n’...
The World is Facing a Maddening Bottleneck
Even if a COVID-19 vaccine is developed, there is unlikely to be a quick return to normality. Dr Anthony Fauci, America’s leading expert in...
ADEL Portrait: Yassine Moustanjidi, Architect and Urbanist
“Out of the Eurocentric box”
This young planner and lecturer at the Departement of International Urbanism of the...
Conflict Returns to the Caucasus
War has started again in the Caucasus, a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea consisting of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of...
Whither Interest Rates in Advanced Economies: Low for Long?
We have previously discussed how, between March...
ADEL Portrait: Vicky Ngari, Fashion Designer and Lecturer
“Your environment, an opportunity for skills”
Born in Kenya, Vicky Ngari reluctantly followed her mother in the United...
Le Pacte sur la migration et l’asile de l’Union européenne : avancée ou nouveau revers ?
La Commission de l’Union européenne (UE) a présenté, le 23 septembre 2020, son Pacte sur la migration et l’asile, supposé être l’un des piliers de...
QAnon and Creeping Conspiracy Theories
The so-called QAnon conspiracy theory has inspired groups with millions of members on Facebook and is considered by some observers to be “a...
Vers un régionalisme avancé de la gestion des défis
La pandémie de la Covid-19 a mis en exergue les limites de la « coopération internationale » et du multilatéralisme, cédant la place à une...
The American People, Not Vladimir Putin Should Decide Who is President of the United States
Bank robbers are now and then caught because banks, insurance companies, or robbed personalities promise rewards for the arrest of criminals. In...
China on the way back to rebalancing
Turkish Muscle Flexing in the Mediterranean
Turkey is flexing its muscles in the Eastern Mediterranean in a dispute ostensibly about energy resources. The dispute has triggered fears of...
La transition énergétique à l’épreuve de la Covid-19
Profondément préoccupée par les niveaux alarmants de propagation et de sévérité du Coronavirus, l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) annonce...
The United Nations at 75
The United Nations (UN) General Assembly meets this week (Sept. 22-29) to celebrate its 75th anniversary...
ADEL Portrait: Ana Paula Barreto, Director of Programs at AfroResistance
« Passionate, Black, visionary »
Ana Paula Barreto talks about serious matters with great calm, taking time to reflect...
Dependency and disconnect of U.S. financial markets
U.S. stock and corporate bond markets performed extraordinarily well from the March financial shock caused by covid-19 to the end of last month....
Not a Good Loser
If America votes Donald Trump out of office in November, will he go? Just a few days ago (...
ADEL Portrait: Kheston Walkins, CEO and Chief of Neuroinnovation Officer of Allegori
“Fathom the incredible, create the crazy”
His warmth comes as naturally as his strong sense of empathy, obvious from the...
Don’t Expect Miracles from the Multilaterals
Latin American and Caribbean economies need help, but organizations like the IDB are also stretched thin.
...
L’urbanisme numérique au Maroc tiendra-t-il ses promesses ?
L’action publique urbaine dans le monde connait une métamorphose grâce à la montée en puissance du numérique dans la production et la gestion de...
Anthem Protest
During the medal ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City on October 16, 1968, two Black American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos,...
A Shadow Over the Generous Spending
Possibly Roger Federer would have been ready to play the match against the socialite, who was willing to pay (in 2014) £160,000 for a celebrity...
Global imbalances, coronavirus, and safe assets
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released, on August 4th, its ninth annual...
Qui a tué le Liban ?
Il y a, d’abord, les premières images. Celles d’une gigantesque déflagration. Même les dizaines de déflagrations, dont nous parviennent...
It’s Pretty Tough Walking a Tightrope
It was notthe way you would expect a scientist to be celebrated....
The Indians Were Selfish
John Wayne was more than just a Hollywood actor. He was an icon, a symbol of the fearless pioneer, fighting Indians, advancing the settlers into...
Can the global recovery be sustained even as the pandemic rages?
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The economic recovery from coronavirus may look like a square root
There are signs of recovery in various parts of the global economy, starting in May, after the depressive dip imposed by Covid-19. Such signs...
Abandoning Afghanistan to the Taliban Wolves
Peace was near, most of the 5000 Taliban fighters were released—one condition for serious peace negotiations—and a city was selected for the...
L’européanisation de la présence française au Sahel : Emmanuel Macron veut capitaliser sur le Sommet de Pau
Six mois après la remise en question de la présence française au Sahel et l’engagement pris pour accélérer les efforts de lutte contre le...
For Ambition Equal to our Moment of Multi-crisis Emergency: “Six Months” to Build a Global Investment Drive in Modern and Affordable Energy Systems
The sobering historical moment we are living through presents a chance to reflect and to renew our resolve to take action to save lives, improve...
Revolution Leading to Victory
The unshaven man, who did not let go of his Kalashnikoff while we talked, had been wounded in battles with Israeli troops, and was now hiding in...
Le Grand Barrage de la Renaissance Éthiopienne : entre les pesanteurs de la souveraineté et les exigences du bon voisinage
Sur fond d’accusations mutuelles d’absence de volonté politique pour faire aboutir les négociations tripartites impliquant l’Egypte, l’Ethiopie et...
Global Protectionism is Hurting Emerging Economies the Most
Unless trade wars end around the globe, the world is headed for the biggest recession in living memory. The crisis arising from the coronavirus...
La transition économique tunisienne à l’aune de la crise sanitaire de la Covid-19
La jeune démocratie tunisienne a réussi le double pari de juguler la propagation de la pandémie de la Covid-19, tout en s’érigeant en un modèle...
All Options Are on the Table
At the beginning of June, officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, usually active on America’s periphery, were deployed to Washington D.C...
Consolidating Power
In times of shadow and despair, populists and authoritarians move in to undermine free speech and democracy. For authoritarian-minded leaders,...
Merchants of Blood and Chaos
On January 24, 2020, the Bana, a freighter, left the Turkish port of Mersin. Its destination was the Tunisian harbor of Gabes. It was a routine...
العولمة و السمعة ما بعد اختبار الجائحة
إن حسن تدبير فترات الاختبارات و المحن و الأزمات كان دوما مصدر السمعة الطيبة دوليا للكيانات الوطنية. إذ أن هذه الأخيرة توظفها في...
ADEL Portrait: Clarissa Rios Rojas, Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Existential Risk
Born in 1984 in Peru and trained as a scientist, Clarissa Rios Rojas has a PhD in molecular biology, but also a clear taste for exploring beyond...
L'impact de la Covid-19 sur les relations internationales
À l’heure actuelle, l’humanité baigne dans une crise profonde dont la portée est universelle. Le constat est sans appel : la pandémie Covid-19 a...
L’Afrique de l’Ouest face au terrorisme sahélien, le combattre maintenant ou le subir à jamais
La Covid-19, menace conjoncturelle en dépit des impacts néfastes attendus, ne doit pas nous détourner complètement de menaces en phase de...
I Can’t Breathe
She is just seventeen. An African-American high-school student. If Darnella Frazier had not turned on her cellphone on May 25, when she witnessed...
Is the United States Reopening Safely?
The United States has suffered more COVID-19 casualties than any other country and continues to report large numbers of new cases and deaths, and...
معالجة الإعلام المغربي للزمن الوبائي: قراءة أولية
شكلت جائحة كوفيد 19 تحديا غير مسبوق بالنسبة للإعلام المغربي بمختلف منابره المكتوبة والمسموعة والمرئية والإلكترونية. كان السؤال يطرح...
Cuba in the Coronavirus Crisis
When the cruise ship the MS Braemar in March had coronavirus cases confirmed on board, it struggled to find somewhere to dock. The Americans...
Higher Debt, Deeper Digitization, and Less Globalization Will be Coronavirus Legacies
Three features of the post-pandemic global economy can already be anticipated: the worldwide rise in public and private debt levels, accelerated...
2020, le globe/monde fermé pour raison de travaux
Sur le ‘’rideau baissé’’ du globe terrestre, une pancarte avec une phrase : ‘’fermé pour raison de travaux’’. La pancarte n’indique aucune date de...
COVID-19: a Catalyst for Decarbonization and Integration of the Mediterranean Energy Market
“NEVER LET A SERIOUS CRISIS GO TO WASTE”
President Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel (2008)
after Sir Winston...
و ما بعد الهلع
الهلع (la sidération) كانت من أكثر الكلمات المستعملة من طرف المعلقين في حديثهم عن المشاعر الفردية والجماعية التي رافقت حياة البشر...
Par-delà la sidération
La pandémie Covid-19, par sa violence et sa soudaineté, a plongé le monde dans un état de stupeur, de sidération. Et c’...
A Terrifying Reality
China, which in 1984 signed a treaty to take over Hong Kong from Britain, agreeing to rule it until 2047 as an autonomous Hong Kong Special...
Le Conseil de Sécurité de l’ONU et la Covid-19 : “Après l’heure, c’est plus l’heure”
Plus de cinq mois se sont écoulés depuis l’apparition du premier cas du Virus Covid-19 dont le bilan mondial provisoire est estimé, aujourd’hui, à...
Les villes, en première ligne de la crise sanitaire du Covid-19
Système urbain complexe, la ville cristallise toutes les attentes d’ordre social, économique et politique. La crise sanitaire du Covid-19 vient...
Vers« Une seconde guerre froide mondiale »
Le monde a connu deux guerres mondiales et se trouve, aujourd’hui, au bord d’une « seconde guerre froide mondiale ». Il n’y aurait certainement...
New Global Hotspot
Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro is almost a mirror image of U.S. president Donald Trump. They have considered COVID-19 a “hoax, ”, (...
The Virus Passed the Electrified Barbed Wire
They live in the shadow of death: the United States has 2,650 death-row inmates, 740 in California’s San Quentin State Prison alone. Today, these...
الغير متوقع والعولمة المتقدمة
يتطابق القرن الواحد والعشرين مع "المرحلة القصوى" للعولمة عبر كل أبعادها في مجالات الإنتاج والتبادل والتكنولوجيا والثقافة. ومع...
Mondialisation avancée et imprévisibilité
Le XXIème siècle est celui du « stade suprême » de la mondialisation, avec toutes ses manifestations aux niveaux de la production, de l’échange,...
The Gravity of the Threat
On February 3, 2003, Colin Powell, U.S. President George Bush’s Secretary of State, informed the United Nations Security Council about secret...
ADEL Portrait, Leonardo Párraga, Executive Director of the BogotArt Foundation
He is a young man like no other. One can spot him easily in a crowd by the way he dresses and addresses the issues with which he is concerned....
Covid-19 and the Implementation of The SDGs in Africa
For Africa, this new decade began full of promise to...
كيف يهدد الذكاء الاصطناعي الديمقراطيات؟
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الصين واستغلال الذكاء الاصطناعي للهيمنة
تم نشر هذا المقال في الأصل على موقع قناة الحرة
يقول یووال نوح هراري إن نمو الذكاء الاصطناعي والتقنيات البيولوجية قد يؤدي...
La crise au temps de la pandémie Covid-19 : Comment l’Algérie sortira-t-elle de l’impasse ?
Tous les pays du monde sont touchés, à différentes échelles, par la pandémie du Covid-19. Les interrogations autour du degré de résilience des...
COVID-19 : Sécurité alimentaire et fondements de l'espoir
S'il y a un point positif dans cette pandémie de COVID-19, c'est la prise de conscience de l'importance de ce qui nous est le plus cher : la...
COVID-19: Food Security and the Foundations of Hope
If there is any silver lining to this COVID-19 pandemic, it is the realization of the importance of some of what we hold most dear: food security...
International Development and the Private Sector in the Coronavirus Outbreak
Despite the global magnitude of the COVID-19 crisis, the response to the pandemic has mainly occurred at national level, with very poor global...
Beacons of Hope
The merciless COVID-19 disease threatens economic misery, with people around the world touched by anxiety and unemployment. In this context, never...
Une stratégie basée sur les risques pour déconfiner l'économie et tuer le virus
Alors que commence le déconfinement de l'économie française, la grande inquiétude est de savoir comment éviter une « seconde vague » de l'épidémie...
السكن الاجتماعي ومتطلبات الحجر الصحي من أجل صمود مجالي مستدام
فرضت جائحة فيروس كورونا المستجد سلوكات جديدة على عادات الناس سواء في المغرب أو على الصعيد العالمي، وذلك حماية للنفس وللآخرين من...
A Risk-Based Strategy to Reopen the American Economy and Contain the Virus
Confronted with surging unemployment and miles long lines at food banks across the United States, most states have begun reopening the economy....
Prix du pétrole : pour les producteurs, le plus dur est-il passé ?
Les 20 et 21 avril 2020, sur le New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), les prix du West Texas Intermediate (WTI) pour le contrat de mai 2020 sont...
How shaped will the post-coronavirus economic recovery be?
Data recently released on the first-quarter global domestic product (GDP) performance of major economies have showed how significant the impact of...
Trust is Part of Governance
Sweden is different. The nation of 10 million people has been a model of social democracy for decades. Its approach to government is modes...
Les Premières Leçons de la Crise : un autre monde à Imaginer et à Construire
Albert Camus, prix Nobel de littérature (1957), disait dans son discours à l’occasion de la réception qui lui était dédiée :
"Chaque...
Behavioral Analysis of COVID-19
In the last two decades, the world has experienced two main global crises: the financial crisis of 2008 and the current COVID-19 health crisis. A...
Between the Virus and the Economy: the Situation of Argentina in Times of Covid-19
Last December, Covid-19 news emerged from China and, as the epicenter of the pandemic moved to Europe in February, and then to the United States...
Relire La Peste de Camus au temps du Corona
Suite à l’épidémie de Corona apparue en décembre 2019 en Chine et que nous sommes en train de subir à l’échelle mondiale, les populations...
Bring Light Inside the Body
For the resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Thursday April 23, 2020, would turn out to be one of those wasted days. President Donald Trump’s...
De l’intérêt d’une coopération avancée entre la Maroc et la CEDEAO à l’heure de la guerre contre la pandémie du Coronavirus
La Communauté économique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) est souvent présentée comme étant le système d’intégration régionale le plus...
Richesses immatérielles et développement
Dans sa « Muqaddima » (Prolégomènes), Ibn Khaldûn décrivait le Soufisme comme une science des cœurs ou, plus précisément, encore, une connaissance...
The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism
Tourism is considered one of the hardest hits by the COVID-19 outbreak. The sector is experiencing a rapid and sharp drop in demand and a surge in...
I Like Him and He Likes Me
Kim Jong-un, the dictator of North Korea, disappeared from public view after an appearance at a Workers' Party politburo meeting on April 11. The...
Channels of transmission of coronavirus to developing economies from abroad
In a previous article, we highlighted how developing economies have faced simultaneous shocks from their external environment, as pandemic and...
Le Maroc post-Covid-19 : croquer la mondialisation à pleines dents
Dans le combat contre la pandémie du Covid-19, le Maroc a choisi de fermer ses frontières aériennes, maritimes et terrestres pour contenir la...
Masques pour tous et revenu minimum : La riposte du Maroc face au Covid-19
Avec moins de 200 décès à ce jour, le Maroc a su enrayer l’épidémie de Covid-19. Mais le pays redoute une explosion de la pauvreté. Pour Karim El...
Coronavirus Spreads Climate Hope : Lessons from Washington state
We are embroiled in a global emergency that we, as a species, have not previously experienced. This menace is responsible for massive numbers of...
Coronavirus et climat : tirer les leçons du cas français
Nous abordons la question de l’impact du climat sur la propagation de Covid-19 avec une certaine hésitation, car nous sommes des économistes, et...
La Banque africaine de développement se mobilise face au coronavirus
Alors que les pays africains semblaient être épargnés par le coronavirus en début de crise, il apparait clairement aujourd’hui que ces derniers...
The United States: Poverty, Race, and Healthcare in the Face of COVID-19
The Coronavirus’ ugly and fierce spread throughout the world underscores the limitations of health infrastructure and shortcomings in public...
Coronavirus and the risk of populism in Europe
When in early March, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conti declared a lockdown in his nation, and urgently requested help from his European...
Covid-19 : Nécessité d’un Etat fort et souci des libertés individuelles ?
Que ne doit-on concéder de nos libertés pour être protégés du Coronavirus ? partout dans notre monde en détresse -même chez les plus libéraux- l’...
الوباء، الحدود المغربية والهدر الديموغرافي
لم تكن الأوبئة التي ساهمت، إلى جانب المجاعات، في تحديد الواقع الديموغرافي لمغرب ما قبل الاستعمار، بالشيء الجديد الطارئ على هذا...
Une représentation de la mondialisation : vulnérabilité et chamboulements
2020 restera dans l’histoire l’année du Coronavirus, bien sûr, mais, surtout, celle de l’ébranlement de nos certitudes. Le choc économique...
Recul de l’opposition et émergence de nouveaux partis : analyse des résultats des élections législatives et municipales au Cameroun
Initialement prévues en 2018, et reportées à deux reprises, les élections législatives et municipales ont finalement pu se tenir le 9 février...
COVID-19 and Military Preparedness
Imagine you are one of the crew members of the nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut, 1000 meters under the floating ice of the...
Le Mellah à l’épreuve des épidémies
Particulièrement, tout autant qu’intentionnellement, avares en matière d’information sur la vie sociale et le quotidien des Musulmans pendant les...
Revenu universel de base : une réponse à la crise du Coronavirus au Nord comme au Sud
Parmi les questions débattues dans les milieux de la décision économique et de la réflexion académique, dans les pays du Nord comme dans les pays...
How to help small and medium enterprises during the Coronavirus tsunami of destruction
We are entering an economic cycle with a changing nature of consumption focusing on necessities. It seems like the times of luxury, entertainment...
Cinq Etats face au coronavirus : Succès et failles des interventions
Bien que les organisations multilatérales se soient multipliées sur le devant de la scène de gouvernance sanitaire mondiale depuis le XXème siècle...
Investir dans la protection sociale pour prévenir et faire face aux risques sociaux
La crise du Covid-19 ne cesse d’impacter les économies des pays du monde entier, aussi bien dans les pays développés que dans les pays en voie de...
L’inflexion de la mondialisation : raison et confusion dans le contexte covid-19
Le processus de mondialisation, si solide soit-il, se trouve à l’épreuve d’une crise sanitaire mondiale inattendue et brutale. Cette réalité...
The Impact of Coronavirus on the Environment
Environmentally sustainable development was the leading theme at the World Economic Forum in Davos in late January 2020. Just two months later,...