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We received fifteen (15) eligible proposals for this 2016 round under the General theme of “Managing the Transition in the South-Med Countries”.<\/p>\nWe received fifteen (15) eligible proposals for this 2016 round under the General theme of “Managing the Transition in the South-Med Countries”.<\/p>\n
Following the evaluation undertaken by the Evaluation committee, the Selection committee selected nine (9) proposals for funding in the context of the FEMISE-European Commission contract on: \u201cSupport to economic research, studies and dialogue of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership\u201d*.<\/p>\n
The nine selected proposals include 16 different FEMISE Affiliates from 11 different EU-Med countries (4 from the north and 7 from the south) and with the participation of more than 35 researchers from the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n
Drafts of the research papers will be presented in the forthcoming FEMISE Annual Conference (early 2017).<\/p>\n
We wish our researchers all the best in the efforts that they will undertake.<\/p>\n
We strongly encourage all of our affiliates to participate in the third round (Spring 2017) and we wish you every success with your research activities.<\/p>\n
The winners are:<\/p>\n
| FEM42-02<\/td>\n | \n Potential Accession to the Revised WTO Government Procurement Agreement: The Cases of Egypt and Turkey, <\/strong>Centre for International Economics at Bilkent University in Ankara (Turkey); along with Sussex University (UK), Cairo University (Egypt) and TOBB University (Turkey)<\/p>\n Egypt and Turkey are not signatories to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement. The purpose of this project studying the effects of potential accession of Egypt and Turkey to GPA is fourfold. First, we shall discuss within a comparative framework the minimum standards required under the GPA with those of Egyptian and Turkish Public Procurement Systems. Second, we shall analyze the major characteristics of public procurement markets in Egypt and Turkey. Third, we shall conduct an empirical study on how successful the GPA is in achieving its objectives of transparency, non-discrimination, and fair and predictable conditions of competition in government procurement markets. Lastly, we shall analyze the benefits and costs of accessing the GPA.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Emigrants selection and the modernization potential of transition economies : A comparative study of the MENA region over the period 2006-2013,<\/strong> IRES, UCLouvain (Belgium)\u00a0; with Middle East Technical University, Ankara (Turkey)<\/p>\n Human capital and cultural traits are two fundamental drivers of modernization and economic growth, as highlighted in the recent literature on growth accounting, on the determinants of technological diffusion across countries, and on the democracy transition. In this context, shocks that affect human capital accumulation and the distribution of cultural traits can have persistent effects on economic and political developments. This project takes advantage of a unique data set (the Gallup world polls) that includes information about individual characteristics, social norms and values, migration aspirations, perceived wellbeing, etc. We propose to use it to analyze the recent trends in emigration aspirations and selection (by education level and by cultural traits) in the MENA countries, and link them to the events that preceded or followed the Arab Spring.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Twin Deficits and the Sustainability of Macroeconomic Policies in Selected European and Mediterranean Partner Countries: Post Financial and Debt Crises, <\/strong>Institute of Financial Economics (Lebanon); with Kedge Business School (France)<\/p>\n This proposed research will attempt to assess the sustainability of the EU\u2019s and MPs current fiscal and macroeconomic policies, and evaluate whether they are violating the inter-temporal budget and external constraints for the public sector. It will mainly address the following research question. How can the EU and MED countries in financial and debt crises curb macroeconomic imbalances (debt, budget and current account deficits, as well as, balance of payment deficits) when they have been experiencing a recession since the 2008 US financial crisis, with high unemployment rates, rising inflation rates, and rising social demands for inclusion?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n La complexification des syst\u00e8mes productifs comme vecteur de transition \u00e9conomique dans les MENA et le r\u00f4le des politiques de court terme. <\/strong>LEAD (Universit\u00e9 de Toulon) (France) ; with Faculte des sciences economiques et de gestion de Sousse (Tunisia)<\/p>\n Les nouvelles contributions \u00e0 la litt\u00e9rature sur la croissance \u00e9conomique ont fait valoir que la structure productive d’un pays, telle que mesur\u00e9e par le niveau de complexit\u00e9 \u00e9conomique, reste un facteur d\u00e9cisif pour les diff\u00e9rences de d\u00e9veloppement inter-pays et sont consid\u00e9r\u00e9es \u00eatre hautement pr\u00e9dictives de la croissance \u00e9conomique future. Toutefois, leurs d\u00e9terminants au niveau des pays et leurs interd\u00e9pendances spatiales entre les pays sont rest\u00e9s inconnus. Dans ce projet de recherche, nous \u00e9tudierons d\u2019une part empiriquement les principaux d\u00e9terminants de la complexit\u00e9 \u00e9conomique \u00e0 partir de la m\u00e9thode de \u03b2-convergence conditionnelle. D\u2019autre part, ce projet comporterait une \u00e9tude de cas de 4 pays MENA (Alg\u00e9rie, Tunisie, Turquie et Emirats Arabes Unis), qui r\u00e9v\u00e8lerait l\u2019effet significatif de la complexit\u00e9 \u00e9conomique sur la cr\u00e9ation d\u2019emplois qualifi\u00e9s \u00e0 court terme.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9s du pilotage macro\u00e9conomique et m\u00e9ta-\u00e9valuation des programmes de r\u00e9formes du FMI en p\u00e9riode de transition politique : cas sp\u00e9cifique de la Tunisie et exp\u00e9riences compar\u00e9es de l\u2019Egypte, la Jordanie et le Maroc. <\/strong>Universit\u00e9 de Tunis El Manar (Tunisia)\u00a0; with LEAD, Universit\u00e9 de Toulon-Var (France)<\/p>\n Appliqu\u00e9e aux programmes de r\u00e9formes achev\u00e9s ou en cours d\u2019impl\u00e9mentation par le FMI en Tunisie, cette proposition de recherche entend combler un d\u00e9ficit de connaissances relatif \u00e0 la prise en compte des m\u00e9ta-\u00e9valuations des r\u00e9formes, dont la grille d\u2019analyse permettra d’identifier et d’analyser les facteurs cl\u00e9s de succ\u00e8s ou d’\u00e9checs des politiques men\u00e9es. Ce faisant, et au niveau de sa partie \u00e9conom\u00e9trique, la proposition permettra aussi un apprentissage sur les exp\u00e9riences et sc\u00e9narii compar\u00e9s de r\u00e9formes entreprises dans un \u00e9chantillon raisonn\u00e9 de pays du printemps arabe incluant l\u2019Egypte, la Jordanie et le Maroc durant la p\u00e9riode de transition, pour mieux cerner leurs contextes particuliers, les contraintes de transposition des r\u00e9formes d’un espace \u00e0 un autre et les raisons qui expliquent leur r\u00e9ussite (ou leur \u00e9chec) dans certains pays et pas dans d’autres.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Inequality and inclusive growth in the South Mediterranean region: Are education and innovation activities favoring firm performance and citizens\u2019 wellbeing? <\/strong>Institute of International Economics (Spain)\u00a0; with American University in Cairo (Egypt)<\/p>\n The main aim of the project is twofold. On the one hand, it aims at analyzing the recent trends in inequality and wellbeing in selected Southern Mediterranean countries at the regional, country\/firm and at the individual level. On the other hand, it aims at identifying and evaluating the potential factors that may trigger and favor more equalitarian distribution of income in the region, focusing in particular on the role played by educational policies, innovation and managerial education in explaining progress in the short run, as well as quantifying their relative importance. Moreover, a macro perspective is added to analyze the link between inequality and growth in the MENA region.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n External and Internal imbalances in South Mediterranean countries : Challenges and Costs<\/strong>, October University (Egypt), European Institute, LSE (UK)<\/p>\n This study aims to provide a detailed analysis of the set of challenges that are affecting the stability and sustainability of external (im) balances of South Mediterranean Countries. It aims to do so, by exploring a number of inter linked questions, as follows\u00a0: How are the South \u2013 MED countries dealing with their external \/ current account imbalances and why\u00a0? What\/how austerity is implemented\u00a0; does it make sense in relation to the external positions of these countries\u00a0; and does it have high social costs \/ negative distributional effects\u00a0? If so, how are these effects mediated politically and through social policies\u00a0?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \u201cAssessing the Macroeconomic and Welfare Effects of Universal Health Coverage (UHC): A Dynamic Microsimulation-based Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Applied to Algeria and Palestine\u201d, <\/strong>GREQAM-AMSE Aix- Marseille University (France) ; with Research Center of Economic Applied for Development (CREAD) (Algeria) and Birzeit University (Palestine)<\/p>\n Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has recently been considered as a primary vehicle to fulfill all of the health-related goals in the newly adopted Social Development Goals (SDGs) (WHO 2015). While this reflects a strong commitment on the part of policy-makers to equity issues in health, achieving UHC requires an evaluation ex ante of its economic feasibility as well as its potential impact on social welfare. Indeed, it remains unclear whether (and to what extent) developing (low-and middle-income) countries can afford UHC (i.e., the economic feasibility) within the specified timespan of 2015-2030. Nonetheless, the potential welfare effects of such endeavor at both micro- and macro-level remain hitherto evidenceless.<\/p>\n This project aims at addressing these questions using an innovative epidemiological-demographic based dynamic micro-simulation method in a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) framework. Specifically, we propose to analyze the micro and macro-level effects of a gradual expansion of health insurance coverage under different demographic and epidemiological scenarios in the context of two developing countries: Algeria and Palestine.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We received fifteen (15) eligible proposals for this 2016 round […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[14,21,4],"tags":[40,452,451,155],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13403,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401\/revisions\/13403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |