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Patrick Plane

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Patrick Plane
Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Patrck Plane is Director of Research at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) affiliated with CERDI, a joint research unit of the CNRS and the University of Clermont Auvergne of which he was director between 2001 and 2013. Patrick Plane is a regular collaborator of the Foundation for Studies and Research on International Development (FERDI) and was for 6 years, between 2010 and 2016, a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP). His research interests are diverse, relating to micro and macroeconomic development issues, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Patrick Plane is the author of several books and around fifty articles in academic journals. Until now, his research has mainly been devoted to industrial economics, the analysis of public-private partnerships and the diagnosis of competitiveness at the level of companies and nations.

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Exchange rate undervaluation: the impact on participation in world trade

Can currency undervaluation influence participation in world trade through global value chains (GVC)? This column reports new evidence on the positive impact of an undervalued real exchange rate on the involvement of a country’s firms in GVCs. Undervaluation acts as an economy-wide industrial policy, supporting the competitiveness of national exports in foreign markets vis-à-vis those of other countries.

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Beyond job creation: how can Egypt’s gender gap in work be closed?

More than 2 million jobs are needed each year to absorb new entrants into Egypt’s labour market and raise the country’s employment rate. The job challenge is even more acute for women, whose labour force participation remains low despite recent gains in education. This column reports on the second Development Dialogue, an ERF–World Bank Group joint initiative, which brought together students, scholars, policy-makers and private sector leaders at the American University in Cairo to consider how the country’s gender gap in work can be closed.

Digitalisation, global value chains and regional integration in MENA & SSA

Participation in global value chains is vital for countries pursuing structural transformation and inclusive economic development. This column summarises new evidence on how much production processes have been globalised in Africa and the Middle East relative to other regions; whether this process has taken place with partners within or outside the region; and whether it has taken place more in manufacturing or services.

The political economy of algorithms in the Middle East

The Middle East is entering a new political-economic era – one in which algorithms, data and artificial intelligence may become as strategically important as oil once was. Across the region, governments are investing heavily in digital infrastructure, smart governance and AI-driven economic transformation. This column outlines how AI and algorithmic governance are reshaping power, inequality and state capacity in the region.

How trade policy can reduce MENA’s cereal import vulnerability

Heavy dependence on imported cereals, combined with climate change, water scarcity and geopolitical uncertainty, continues to threaten food resilience across MENA. This column explains how an inclusive trade policy can play a key role in making the region’s food security less vulnerable to shocks.




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