Podcasts
Structural change and the National Initiative for Human Development in Morocco
Experts Talk
This paper aims to revisit the pace and patterns of structural change in Morocco with a renewed perspective focusing on subnational trends to document the macro patterns. In that perspective, we first build a within-country sectoral longitudinal…
Traditional kingdoms and modern constitutions: parochialism, patriarchy, and despotism vs. indigenous safeguards against absolutism
Experts Talk
This chapter pursues three closely related but distinct scholarly aims. The first one is to provide a comparative look at the different ways Africa’s traditional structures of governance are brought into the fold of modern constitutions. There are two…
Countering the Islamic State in the Lake Chad Basin: A case for a security-development-governance nexus?
Experts Talk
The Islamic State in the West African province (ISWAP) has gained prominence in Lake Chad Basin by filling in the security, service delivery, and governance gaps in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger. This has won the group recruits and support in some…
A socio-economic impact analysis of the political crisis in Burundi with a focus on children
Experts Talk
In this paper we present an social and economic impact analysis of the Burundi political crisis (2015 to 2017) performed with a macro-micro-simulation framework. To achieve these objectives, we constructed a macro-micro analytical framework that…
Does Social Mobility Matter? The Kafala System and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
Experts Talk
Existing studies argue that anti-immigrant sentiment stems from threat perception. Yet, conventional theoretical approaches cannot fully explain hostility toward immigrants in the Middle East and North Africa, where low-skilled foreign workers occupy…
La liberté d’expression : une liberté privée, politique ou sociale ?
Experts Talk
Comment comprendre la thèse selon laquelle la liberté d’expression constitue l’un des fondements d’une société démocratique, comme cela a pu être invoqué dans de nombreuses décisions constitutionnelles, en particulier en Allemagne ? L’article se…
Managing Security Threats in Africa by Building Resilience Through Youth Inclusion
Experts Talk
Since independence, the resilience of the African state has been tested on issues of legitimacy of governments, service delivery and citizenship, to mention but a few. The idea of a resilient state has risen to prominence in the international security…
Parlements en (r)évolutions ? - Déborah Perez
Experts Talk
Les assemblées parlementaires dans les mondes arabes n’ont guère suscité l’intérêt des chercheurs, si ce n’est, ponctuellement, au lendemain des indépendances au Maghreb ou dans le sillage des études sur la transition démocratique [Baaklini et al.,…
Aspirational and representative constitutional identity in Africa
Experts Talk
This article addresses the problématique of giving voice to homegrown traditions of constitutionalism in individual African countries. The scholarly discussion is combined with an applied concern about whether this could instil a wider…
Impact des programmes de protection sociale sur la pauvrete multidimensionnelle: Nouvelles approches et application au cas du Maroc
Experts Talk
Deux nouvelles méthodes sont développées pour approcher l'impact de la réforme du système de protection sociale au Maroc sur la pauvreté multidimensionnelle mesurée par l'IPM introduit par OPHI, et ses composantes. Ces approches se distinguent par…