(update 16/11/12: Conference Agenda available)
The 2012 FEMISE annual Conference took place on the 23rd and 24th of November in Marrakech, Morocco, at the Hotel La Palmeraie. The theme of this year  was “Inclusive Development in the South -Med Countries and the role of the EU-Med partnership”. The agenda is  available here and the conference concept note here.
The [...]

FEMISE, the Institute of the Mediterranean, Le Cercle des Economistes and their partners organized the VIIIth edition of the Economic Rendez-vous of the Mediterranean, on Saturday October 20th, 2012, as part of the Mediterranean Economic Week of Marseilles, on the topic:
« New powers, new economic programs in the Mediterranean »
The Conference related to the private [...]

The Arab Awakening and the Role of the EU-Med Partnership – Highlights of the last FEMISE conference
One year after the beginning of the Arab Spring, members of the FEMISE met in Marseille for their annual conference, on 15th and 16th December 2011. The economists firstly maintained that the awakening of the people in the [...]

“The Arab Awakening and the Role of the EU-Med Partnership”, Marseille 15th and 16th of Decembre 2011

Below, the papers presented during the Femise annual Conference in December 2011. Papers are in PDf format except when mentionned:
(1)  Towards Political and Economic Inclusion: Managing the Transition and Beyond

Arab Spring : It is time to Walk [...]

The 2011 FEMISE annual Conference took place this year on December 15-16th in Marseille, France, Hotel Villa Massalia. The theme of this year was on “The Arab Awakening and the Role of the EU-Med Partnership”. You can download the conference concept note and agenda by clicking on the link: Femise conference concept note and agenda
The conference [...]

2nd International Workshop on

Firms, Trade and Development
4-5 July 2011,
Aix-en-Provence, France

The Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Economic Science Institutes (FEMISE) organized in collaboration with the DEFI (University of the Mediterranean, Aix-Marseille), the GDR-CNRS (economy of development and transition) and CARIS (University of Sussex, Brighton) a second workshop on “Firms, Trade and Development” in Aix en [...]

In Istanbul on 16 and 17 April 2011, some fifty economic experts from the Mediterranean compared their studies on “Migration in the Arab region” at the invitation of Femise (the Euromediterranean Forum of Economic Institutes) and the ERF (Economic Research Forum). This was an opportunity to make a point in particular on remittances by these [...]

The second workshop on « Firms, Trade and Development » will be held in Aix en Provence, France, on the 4th and 5th of July 2011. The workshop will be organised by FEMISE and the DEFI, in collaboration with GDR-CNRS Development and Transition’s Economy and CARIS (University of Sussex, Brighton). If you [...]

FEMISE and ERF (Economic Research Forum), jointly organized a workshop in Istanbul on 16 and 17 April 2011 under the theme of: “Migration in the Arab Region: Causes and Consequences“, to better understand the evolution of the migration phenomenon in the Mediterranean. Best-qualified researchers in the field presented results of their latest research and exchanged [...]

At the conference FEMISE on structural transformation, several personalities gave their views on desirable policies to be implemented in the Mediterranean during interviews:
Mustapha Nabli, Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia; Lino Cardarelli, acting secretary general of the UFM; Suk Joon Kim, Chair of STEPI; Pierre Deusy, chief economist at DG RELEX European Commission; Mohamed [...]