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Samir Maliki

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Samir Maliki
Full Professor in Economics and Business, Tlemcen University

Prof. Samir Baha-Eddine Maliki is a Full Professor in Economics and Business. He joined Tlemcen University in the fall of 2000 as an Assistant Professor of Economics. Maliki completed his Ph.D. at Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines University in France. Maliki’s research interests lie in Applied Economics, Water Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development in the MENA region. Currently, Prof Maliki is the Director of the Ph.D. program on Economic Engineering and Enterprise at Tlemcen University and Head of team research at Mecas laboratory. In addition, he is an ERF Research Fellow in Cairo. He is widely published in refereed journals in economics, business, and other management areas.. In addition, he has 20 years of teaching experience with undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students. He has also held Visiting positions at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris; CSM Monaco and Lublin University of Technology, Poland.With a long experience in research, he has published several papers and studies in international indexed journals, and he is an editorial review board member for some scientific journals.

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Entrepreneurship and economic development in the MENA region

Entrepreneurship has come to be considered one key to countries’ economic development. This column assesses the connection between entrepreneurship and the economic development of nine economies in the Middle East and North Africa over the period from 2006 to 2018.

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Artificial intelligence and the renewable energy transition in MENA

Artificial intelligence has the potential to bridge the gap between abundant natural resources and the pressing need for reliable, sustainable power in the Middle East and North Africa. This column outlines the constraints and proposes policies that can address the challenges of variability of renewable resources and stress on power grids, and support the transformation of ‘sunlight’ to ‘smart power’.

Arab youth and the future of work

The Arab region’s labour markets are undergoing a triple transformation: demographic, digital and green. As this column explains, whether these forces evolve into engines of opportunity or drivers of exclusion for young people will hinge on how swiftly and coherently policy-makers can align education, technology and employment systems to foster adaptive skills, inclusive institutions and innovation-led pathways to decent work.

Digitalising governance in MENA: opportunities for social justice

Can digital governance promote social justice in MENA – or does it risk deepening inequality and exclusion? This column examines the evolution of digital governance in three sub-regions – Egypt, Jordan and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council – highlighting how data practices, transparency mechanisms and citizen trust shape the social outcomes of technological reform.

Wrong finance in a broken multilateral system: red flags from COP30-Belém

With the latest global summit on climate action recently wrapped up, ambitious COP pledges and initiatives continue to miss delivery due to inadequate commitments, weak operationalisation and unclear reporting systems. As this column reports, flows of climate finance remain skewed: loans over grants; climate mitigation more than climate adaptation; and weak accountability across mechanisms. Without grant-based finance, debt relief, climate-adjusted lending and predictable multilateral flows, implementation of promises will fail.

Why political connections are driving business confidence in MENA

This column reports the findings of a new study of how the political ties of firms in the Middle East and North Africa boost business confidence. The research suggests that this optimism is primarily driven by networked access to credit and lobbying, underscoring the need for greater transparency and institutional reform in corporate governance.




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