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Impact des programmes de protection sociale sur la pauvreté multidimensionnelle: cas du Maroc

This article addresses the problématique of giving voice to homegrown traditions of constitutionalism in individual African countries. The scholarly discussion is combined with an applied concern about whether this could instil a wider grassroots embrace of the country’s constitution, thereby consolidating constitutionalism and ensuring longevity. The investigation is carried through the lens of two sub-categories of the concept of constitutional identity: a representative one that reflects a country’s particular political, social and cultural makeup, and an aspirational one that sets goals and ideals. The challenge, in both scholarly and applied terms, is how to ensure that a constitution instils a sense of public ownership by becoming more representative of a country’s underlying makeup while also giving voice to modern aspirations to protect and promote individual human rights, and in doing so, also becoming self-sustaining as the foundational basic law guiding future generations. Attention is paid not only to the forms of constitutions but also to their function in both reaching ideals (in the positive sense of success) and staving off pitfalls (in the negative sense of success). The article also discusses whether these are best achieved
through gradual terms over time or through the sudden big bang of mega reforms.

Aspirational and representative constitutional identity in Africa - Jan Erk

Parlements en (r)évolutions ? - Déborah Perez

Since independence, the resilience of the African state has been tested on issues of legitimacy of governments, service delivery and citizenship, to mention but a few. The idea of a resilient state has risen to prominence in the international security and development fora. It has featured in political discourse on state-building and state fragility, especially in postwar states. However, a research gap exists on the link between resilience and youth inclusion. Africa has the youngest population in the world1 but is also home to some of the fastest-growing economies2 globally. Yet even with some of the fastest-growing economies, the African continent is struggling to include youth into state structures. Unemployed educated young people3 have posed security risks to their communities through engaging in organized and petty criminal activity. In contrast, others have been radicalized in countries like Mozambique and have taken arms against the state. Other youth have chosen to engage in political discourse as s own by people power in Uganda and Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa, to mention but a few. The political path has been mired with violence in some cases as the ruling
regimes have sought to keep hold of power. This has created a powder keg over Africa’s continent that has exploded numerous times, as the case was with the 2011 Arab Spring, 2020 election riots in Uganda and disaffected youth in Mozambique have been drawn
into terror organizations.

Managing Security Threats in Africa by Building Resilience Through Youth Inclusion

''Global Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Trends in a Changing World"

''Climate and Sustainability Strategies" - Andreas Kraemer

Les conséquences géopolitiques de la guerre en Ukraine - Bruno Tertrais

La liberté d’expression : une liberté privée, politique ou sociale ? - Clotilde Nouët

Does Social Mobility Matter? The Kafala System and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment - Amir Abdul Reda

A socio-economic impact analysis of the political crisis in Burundi with a focus on children

''What Type of Trade is Promoted by Environmental Regulations?''- Chahir Zaki

Countering the Islamic State in the Lake Chad Basin - Norman Sempijja

''Exchange Rate Undervaluation and African Surges: What do we Learn from Exported Products?''

Traditional kingdoms and modern constitutions - Jan Erk

Structural change and the National Initiative for Human Development in Morocco

Potential Economic Impacts of Agricultural Growth in Africa: Evidence from Guinea-Bissau

The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences

Avoiding the Political Resource Curse: Evidence from a Most-Likely Case

Energy Transition in the MENA Region - Eckart Woertz

Geopolitical Conflicts and Geoeconomic Competition in Southeast Asia - Hung Q.Tran

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