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EMEA announces the webinar “Remittances, labour markets and digitalisation in Africa and Middle East: What to expect post COVID-19” scheduled on Thursday 02 July 2020, 15:00- 16:30 CET

Under EMEA’s COVID-19 Policy Response Initiative, a series of webinars is organised twice a month, in collaboration with EMEA partners’ organisations.
This webinar aims at discussing challenges and opportunities from declining remittances, the potential of reforming labour markets in the wake of digitalization in Africa and the Middle East.

DRAFT AGENDA

Moderator(s):
Prof. Rym Ayadi, President, Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA) and Professor CASS Business School, London

Speaker(s):
Ralph Chami,Assistant Director, International Monetary Fund and member of EMEA Advisory Board
*Dilip Ratha,Lead Economist, World Bank
Ekkehard Ernst, Chief Macroeconomist, International Labour Organization

Discussant(s):
Cinzia Alcidi, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Economic Policy Unit, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Member of EMEA Executive Board

* invited and to be confirmed.
The webinar is organised by the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA) and will take place on Thursday 2 July at 15:00 CET on Zoom.