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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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The green transition in MENA economies: challenges and policy pathways

The economies of the Middle East and North Africa are at a critical turning point. Global decarbonisation pressures, energy market volatility and technological transformation are increasingly challenging hydrocarbon-based growth models. This column argues that the green transition is not only an environmental necessity but also a strategic economic imperative.

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.

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.

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.

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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