Rules of origin play a crucial role in preferential trade agreements, and they can also deny intended market access for preference receivers. This brève examines a relaxation by the EU (decision no.1/2016)[1] of the origin requirements for selected products from Jordan, which is intended to create 200,000 job opportunities for Syrian refugees. While the relaxation […]

Par Jean-Claude BERTHELEMY,  Professeur à l’université Paris 1, dont il a dirigé le département  d’économie, co- directeur de l’axe de recherche « Economie du développement  durable » du centre d ’économie  de la Sorbonne et Arnaud MILLIEN,  Enseignant-chercheur au centre d’économie de la Sorbonne où il prépare une thèse sur l’effet de la fiabilité de […]

This paper studies how decentralization affects poverty, vulnerability, and inequality in Morocco, in the context of ongoing regionalization reforms. We use different non-parametric approaches to assess spending efficiency of Moroccan municipalities and regions over the period 2005-2009. The results indicate that the efficiency of spending in improving pro-poor outcomes is dependent on the fiscal autonomy […]

The paper examines how the Government of Morocco has addressed the issue of decentralization in recent years and how these processes have evolved and affected fiscal and public policies. More specifically, this paper analyzes the current legislative and institutional provisions governing administrative, political and fiscal decentralization in Morocco and presents a detailed analysis of the […]