Morocco and Tunisia in Global Value Chains: focus on business services as innovation drivers
Morocco, Tunisia, Global

In this report, we argue that, to better understand how business services can contribute to...

Value chains
Industry
SMEs
Do youth employment programs improve labor market outcomes? A quantitative review
Global

Bringing young people into productive work is a key labor market challenge in both developing and...

Employment
Labour
Public policies
Youth
Youth unemployment
The cyclical fluctuations of production and unemployment in Morocco: a sectoral approach to Okun's law
Morocco

The objective of this study is to verify the validity and stability of Okun's law for the case of...

Employment
Labour
Public policies
Unemployment
PME Tunisiennes : Comment saisir les opportunités des Chaînes de Valeur Mondiales
Tunisia

This economic policy note proposes to take stock of Tunisia's integration into GVCs, to identify the...

SMEs
Value chains
Matching training to employment in Morocco
Morocco

Integration into the job market can be conditioned by the existence of a diploma or lack thereof...

Education
Employment
Graduates
Labour
Skills
Egypt’s National Strategy for the Development of Organic Clusters: 2019-30
Egypt

The importance of clusters to the economic and social development of countries around the world has...

MSMEs
Public policies
SMEs
Support
Value chains
The challenges and opportunities of the labor market in Morocco
Morocco

The objective of this note is to analyze the main characteristics of the Moroccan labor market, in...

Employment
Labour
Unemployment
Women
Youth
Industrial Policy, Structural Change and Global Value Chains Participation: Case study of Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt
Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt

Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt (such as many other developing countries) have always considered pro...

Industry
Public policies
Value chains
Supporting Self-Employment and Small-Scale Entrepreneurship : Potential Programs to Improve Livelihoods for Vulnerable Workers
Global

Worldwide, around 55 percent of workers are self-employed, and about three-quarters of these are...

Earnings
Employment
Entrepreneurs
Impact evaluations
Value chains
Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession
Global

The “Great Recession” resulted in many business closings and foreclosures, but what effect did it...

Economy
Entrepreneurship
Labour
Public policies
Unemployment