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Structural change and the National Initiative for Human Development in Morocco : subnational insights
Akim, Al-mouksit; Sahel, Wissal - 2023
This paper aims to revisit the pace and patterns of structural change in Morocco with a renewed perspective focusing on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290677
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Climate change impacts on Moroccan agriculture and the whole economy : an analysis of the impacts of the Plan Maroc Vert in Morocco
Ouraich, Ismail; Tyner, Wallace E. - 2014
Maroc Vert, helps in agricultural adaptation to climate change and uncertainty. We develop a regionalized Morocco Computable … administrative and economic regions in Morocco. Yield projections are obtained from the joint-study by the Moroccan Ministry of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349439
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Morocco's unique situation in the climate change arena : an analysis of climate forecasts and their link to agriculture
Ouraich, Ismail; Tyner, Wallace E. - 2014
results for projected yield impacts in Morocco using a well-tested crop model, CliCrop, which estimates yield impacts based on … yield declines for Morocco. It is important for future research to resolve these differences. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354015
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Could free trade alleviate effects of climate change? : a worldwide analysis with emphasis on Morocco and Turkey
Ouraich, Ismail; Dudu, Hasan; Tyner, Wallace E.; … - 2014
special focus on Morocco and Turkey. We use the GTAP model, which is a global general equilibrium model, to investigate trade … Morocco, tariff elimination under all scenarios on average induces additional welfare loss compared with the climate change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381372
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Aid and Dutch Disease : evidence from Moroccan and Tunisian time-series data
Addison, Tony; Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2013
of two North African countries, Morocco and Tunisia. We do so by performing a multivariate time series analysis of … aggregated annual data over the period 1980-2009. Aid causes real exchange rate appreciation in the case of Morocco, especially … depreciation in Tunisia but have no significant effect in Morocco, while FDI does not have an effect on the real exchange rate in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210682
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The economic gains of closing the employment gender gap : evidence from Morocco
Bargain, Olivier; Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2021
to relate growth to the relative employment of women and, also, suggest simulations for Morocco. Both approaches lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509934
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The contribution of services to trade and development in Southern Africa
Visagie, Justin; Turok, Ivan - 2019
Services are the fastest growing portion of world trade and now account for nearly a quarter of global exports. This presents opportunities for emerging economies to adapt and enter new markets. Many countries in southern Africa have struggled to diversify from a heavy reliance on primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003785
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Social norms as a barrier to women's employment in developing countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2019
This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment, as well as how gender norms differ substantially across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122672
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Industries without smokestacks : telecommunication and ICT-based services trade
Frischtak, Cláudio R. - 2017
This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588874
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Educational inequality in Mozambique
Berg, Servaas van der; Maia, Carlos da; Burger, Cobus - 2017
In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to higher levels of education (there are 30 times as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152058