FEMISE is pleased to announce that its next Policy Seminar will be on the theme of “Unlocking the Potential of the Private Sector in South Med Countries” and will take place during the 5^th of December 2016, in Beirut, Lebanon. The seminar is organised in collaboration with our partners, the Institute of Financial Economics, at the American University of Beirut (AUB).

The objective of this joint FEMISE-AUB policy seminar is to identify the different challenges that the private sector of the South Med countries is facing. From the one hand, the region suffers from large macroeconomic instabilities; and from the other, the sector faces complex administrative procedures and difficult access to finance for SMEs. The seminar will attempt to answer the following key question: “What measures could be taken to unlock the potentials of the private sector in the South Med countries?”. This will be done in three sessions and one roundtable discussion.

The concept note with more details about the contents of the seminar is available by clicking here.

The agenda is also available by clicking here.

This event received financial support from the European Union through the FEMISE project on “Support to Economic Research, studies and dialogues of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership”. Any views expressed in this seminar are the sole responsibility of the speakers.

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