Export and FDI in North Africa: an update
In an extremely varied economic scenario, Intesa Sanpaolo forecasts a new acceleration in the GDP growth rate of the area in the two-year period 2015 and 2016 with good investment opportunities.
The Libyan economy in search of stability and foresight
SACE identifies the key to economic development in Libya in the adoption of medium-long term policies capable not only of diversifying the country's productive structure, but also of modernizing its entire financial sector.
New scenarios for Italian exports of goods to North Africa
The consequences of the Arab Spring in the three main sectors (oil and derivatives, machinery and textiles) have seen the collapse of the Libyan market, the increase in flows to Algeria and Morocco, the stable preponderance of textiles in Tunisia.
Mediterranean with variable geometry
The economic performance of the Med10 countries is slowed down not only by the protests which in some cases resulted in real revolutions and civil wars, but also by political-economic factors such as profound institutional and financial inefficiencies.
The Tunisian rebus, between financial and popular pressures
The high exposure to the European economy and the uncertainty following the political-social crisis have repercussions on the Tunisian economy, which is in need of efficient reforms that can be implemented as soon as possible on an institutional and structural level.
The impetuous and unequal growth of the African economy
According to a report entitled "Economic prospects in Africa", the African economy is set to grow by 4,5% in 2012, and by 4,8% in 2013 - the driving force of the expansion of China and India is offsetting For now, the…
Alwaleed $300 million in Twitter. The sheik catch-all discovers a passion for social networks.
Alwaleed, the Saudi prince who boasts investments in Apple, Citigroup and General Motors, with personal assets of over 20 billion dollars, places a strategic investment in the social network of the blue sparrow - In the last year the tweets in Arabic…
The crisis in North Africa and the Middle East: the Sace scenario
SACE has strengthened monitoring, but has not "closed" the doors to companies intending to operate in these countries. It has kept its insurability conditions unchanged, albeit with a prudential approach that implies a careful assessment of the individual new operations…
The future of North African banks in the aftermath of the Arab Spring
The Monte dei Paschi di Siena study: GDP growth is declining in countries that have undergone revolutions, such as Egypt and Tunisia, while it settles at +4% in Algeria and Morocco. The turbulence also affected the…
Egypt, Mubarak in court: "I'm not guilty"
The former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, appeared this morning in court in Cairo. He has to answer for corruption charges and for the massacre of many demonstrators during the February protests. He is the first Arab leader to sit on the bench of…
Syria: the spraying men and their colored guns.
"????? ??????" they are the boys who have decided to protest against the government in an alternative way: not with guns but by drawing provocative graffiti on the walls of the major cities of Syria.