Croissance et justice sociale
Six ans après les Printemps arabes, les inégalités qui les ont en partie déclenché restent criantes et problématiques dans le monde arabe. Samir Aita, économiste franco-syrien, revient sur leurs causes, leurs conséquences et leurs traitements possibles. En quels termes seRead more…
Six years after the Arab Spring movements, inequalities that largely triggered them still pose a problem in the Arab world. Samir Aita, a Franco-Syrian economist, takes a look at their causes, consequences and potential ways of addressing these. What areRead more…
La date des premières élections municipales en Tunisie est fixée au 6 mai 2018. Longtemps attendu, ce scrutin devrait doter les municipalités de conseils librement élus, déterminer les nouveaux rapports de force politiques et reconfigurer la relation entre l’État et les collectivitésRead more…
Executive Summary A study has been conducted to identify key methods of analysis, necessary data collection, monitoring and frameworks to address the economic assessment of urban issues for reconstruction in post-conflict Syria. The study firstly concerned the urban realities thatRead more…
Review Analysis Of the ESCWA “Strategic Policy Alternatives Framework (SPAF). Syria Post Conflict” Of the “National Agenda for the Future of Syria (NAFS)” This review analysis is made on ESCWA’s June 2017 SPAF synopsis report1. The detailed report or theRead more…
Under the umbrella of the EU-funded Local Area Development Programme (LADP), the UN-Habitat team has worked closely with focal points of four pilot municipalities in the south of Iraq: the city of Basra in Basra Governorate; Al Rumaitha in AlRead more…
By Kamal Hamdan & Lea Aboukhater This background paper underlines the major socio-economic repercussions of the lingering Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon, and highlights the policies and overall strategy of response of the Government of Lebanon, international agencies and otherRead more…
At the Expert Group Meeting on Innovation and Technology for Achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda Beirut, 5-7 December, 2017 Samir AITA-Innovation Arab SMEsf-low
Data and statistics on labor and employment in the Arab trade unions’ literature are abundant. However, much of them are marred by issues that do not help towards clarifying the nature of the mainstream labor relations in the Arab world,Read more…
Oxford Workshop: New Perspectives on Political Economy of the Middle East The economics of the Syrian refugee crisis in neighboring countries. The case of Lebanon Anda DAVID, Mohamed Ali MAROUANI, Charbel NAHAS, Björn NILSSON Abstract In this article, we investigateRead more…