On the occasion of the annual research conference on the Middle East and North Africa region, organized in Morocco on June 29 and 30, Jihad Azour, head of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and Karim El Aynaoui, executive vice president of Mohammed VI University, published on Tuesday a statement in which they affirm that “the war in the Middle East threatens to have profound repercussions on the region’s economic trajectory.”
They added that this unprecedented shock is pushing the region’s countries to rethink their future choices, in an already complex environment marked by numerous challenges, against a backdrop of rapid technological evolution and transformations in global trade patterns.
