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Economic Priorities after the Arab Spring
From October 25, 2011 until November 21, 2011
On Monday 21st November, Casa Árabe will host in Madrid the workshop "Economic Priorities after the Arab Spring: Reform and Economic Policy in Transitional Operations" where a group of experts will analyse different features and areas which in the economy sector must be specially taken care of in those countries’ new political agendas.
The Arab Spring arises a wide range of questions and opens the chances of new economic policy’s guidelines to be applied during and after the ongoing transition operations in the Arab countries.
Place: at Casa Árabe’s Auditorium in Madrid (c/ Alcalá, 62).
Registration: By telephone (91 563 06 52) or via E-Mail (economia@casaarabe-ieam.es).
09:30 Reception of participants
10:00 Opening
Gema Martín Muñoz, Director general of Casa Árabe and its International Institute of Arab and Muslim
World Studies.
Samir Aita, President of Le Cercle des Economistes Arabes and Director general of Le Monde diplomatique.
Editions arabes.
El Mouhoub Mouhoud, Director of GDRI DREEM, Université Paris-Dauphine.
10:30 Session I: The Economic Dimension of the Arab Revolutions: impact and perspectives
Chair/Rapporteur: Olivia Orozco, Socioeconomic & Business Program Coordinator, Casa Árabe.
Political Economy of Arab Revolutions: Perspectives and analysis
El Mouhoub Mouhoud, Economic Professor and Director of the GDRI DREEM, Paris-Dauphine
University.
Arab Revolution and the global financial crisis
Nidal Rashid Sabri, Professor and Dean of College of Economics, Birzeit University.
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 Session II: Building up New Frameworks to Deal with the Youth Bulge in Arab Countries
Chair/Rapporteur: Mohamed Ali Marouani, Associate Professor in Economics, Paris1-Sorbonne
University.
Creating Economic and Social Perspectives for the Youth
Samir Aita, President of Le Cercle des Economistes Arabes and Director General of Le Monde diplomatique.
Editions arabes.
Economic Developments in the South Mediterranean and the employment challenge
Constantin Tsakas, Economist, Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Economic Sciences Institutes (FEMISE).
13:30 Lunch break
15:00 Session III: Economic Liberalization, Competitiveness and Sectoral Policies
Chair/Rapporteur: Gonzalo Escribano, Senior Analyst of the Real Instituto Elcano and Professor of
Applied Economics in the UNED.
Competitiveness trajectory and perspectives in Arab countries after the revolutions
Mª Teresa Fernández Fernández, Professor of Economics of Rey Juan Carlos University
and researcher of the Economic and Social Analysis Institute, Alcalá University.
Credit coverage and small & medium companies in Arab financial systems
Jacinto Soler, partner-director of Emergia Partners and responsible of Sectorial Policies at PIMEC.
Small scale farming and food sovereignty: Exporting versus Subsisting. Tunisia & Egypt
Habib Ayeb, Social Research Center, American University of Cairo.
State and Industrial Transformation in the North of Africa
Fatiha Talahite, Researcher at the CNRS, Centre d'Economie de Paris Nord (CEPN), University
of Paris 13.
17:30 Conclusions: Economic Priorities after the Arab Revolutions: moving forward
Place: at Casa Árabe’s Auditorium in Madrid (c/ Alcalá, 62).
Registration: By telephone (91 563 06 52) or via E-Mail (economia@casaarabe-ieam.es).
PROGRAM
09:30 Reception of participants
10:00 Opening
Gema Martín Muñoz, Director general of Casa Árabe and its International Institute of Arab and Muslim
World Studies.
Samir Aita, President of Le Cercle des Economistes Arabes and Director general of Le Monde diplomatique.
Editions arabes.
El Mouhoub Mouhoud, Director of GDRI DREEM, Université Paris-Dauphine.
10:30 Session I: The Economic Dimension of the Arab Revolutions: impact and perspectives
Chair/Rapporteur: Olivia Orozco, Socioeconomic & Business Program Coordinator, Casa Árabe.
Political Economy of Arab Revolutions: Perspectives and analysis
El Mouhoub Mouhoud, Economic Professor and Director of the GDRI DREEM, Paris-Dauphine
University.
Arab Revolution and the global financial crisis
Nidal Rashid Sabri, Professor and Dean of College of Economics, Birzeit University.
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 Session II: Building up New Frameworks to Deal with the Youth Bulge in Arab Countries
Chair/Rapporteur: Mohamed Ali Marouani, Associate Professor in Economics, Paris1-Sorbonne
University.
Creating Economic and Social Perspectives for the Youth
Samir Aita, President of Le Cercle des Economistes Arabes and Director General of Le Monde diplomatique.
Editions arabes.
Economic Developments in the South Mediterranean and the employment challenge
Constantin Tsakas, Economist, Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Economic Sciences Institutes (FEMISE).
13:30 Lunch break
15:00 Session III: Economic Liberalization, Competitiveness and Sectoral Policies
Chair/Rapporteur: Gonzalo Escribano, Senior Analyst of the Real Instituto Elcano and Professor of
Applied Economics in the UNED.
Competitiveness trajectory and perspectives in Arab countries after the revolutions
Mª Teresa Fernández Fernández, Professor of Economics of Rey Juan Carlos University
and researcher of the Economic and Social Analysis Institute, Alcalá University.
Credit coverage and small & medium companies in Arab financial systems
Jacinto Soler, partner-director of Emergia Partners and responsible of Sectorial Policies at PIMEC.
Small scale farming and food sovereignty: Exporting versus Subsisting. Tunisia & Egypt
Habib Ayeb, Social Research Center, American University of Cairo.
State and Industrial Transformation in the North of Africa
Fatiha Talahite, Researcher at the CNRS, Centre d'Economie de Paris Nord (CEPN), University
of Paris 13.
17:30 Conclusions: Economic Priorities after the Arab Revolutions: moving forward
