Salvatore Capasso, Giovanni Canitano (a cura di)

Mediterranean Economies 2021-2022

Pubb. online: 2022
Isbn ed.dig.: 978-88-15-37103-4
DOI: 10.978.8815/371034

Indice

Introduction The Mediterranean after the calamity: economics and politics in the post-pandemic world
Regions of the Mediterranean
POLITICAL GEOGRAPGY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
1 The Middle East and North Africa in 2021: brewing crises and geopolitical re-alignments
Introduction
1. The Middle East: Biden Reset or Tactical Re-adjustments?
- 1.1. Iran, Biden and the Persian Gulf Security Complex
- 1.2. Syria’s Ongoing Agony
2. North Africa
- 2.1. Libya: a hesitant turn towards democracy
- 2.2. Western Sahara returns to fuel Moroccan-Algerian Tensions
Conclusion
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PANDEMIC
2 The year after: how Mediterranean economies coped with the COVID-19 pandemic
Introduction
1. The macroeconomic fundamentals
2. Public finance during COVID-19
- 2.1. Expenditures
- 2.2. Taxes
- 2.3. Deficits
- 2.4. Debts
3. The commodities market
Conclusions
3 Italian Firms Exposure, risk and sentiment to COVID-19: impact on credit behaviour and patrimonial status
Introduction
1. Literature background
2. Data
3. Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: Descriptive evidence
4. Effects of firm-level COVID-19 exposure
- 4.1. Estimation strategy
- 4.2. Results
Conclusions
4 Trade flows and supply chain resilience in the era of the COVID pandemic
Introduction
1. Export and import trends from quarterly data
2. Export trends from monthly data during the pandemic: 2020 fall and 2021 recovery in the target markets
3. Import trend: the 2020 fall and 2021 recovery by sector
- 3.1. Import trend: breakdown by sector
Conclusions
5 Digitalization, remote working and employment: a focus on the Mediterranean region
Introduction
1. Effects of the pandemic
- 1.1. Impact on health
- 1.2. Impact on the labour market
2. ICT developments in the Mediterranean region
- 2.1. Digital infrastructure
- 2.2. Internet access and use
- 2.3. ICT skills levels
3. Beyond enabling technologies: teleworkable occupations
Conclusions
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENT
6 Human development in the Anthropocene: rethinking sustainability in a post COVID-19 Mediterranean
1. Climate and environmental changes: the Mediterranean region in the Anthropocene
2. Reshaping human development within planetary boundaries in the Mediterranean region
3. Integrated approach for securing a sustainable future in the Mediterranean
4. The New Agenda for the Mediterranean to achieve sustainable human development in the Mediterranean
Conclusions
7 Environmental conflicts in the Mediterranean region
Introduction
1. Methodology and selected dataset: the EJAtlas - a global mapping of socio-environmental conflicts
2. Descriptive analysis of the Mediterranean Basin’s environmental conflicts
3. Conflicts and use of resources
Conclusions
Appendix
8 Public spaces and the COVID-19 pandemic: two best practices in the Mediterranean area
Introduction
1. The New Urban Agenda
2. The QPS-D@taC + database
3. The Palermo and Genoa waterfront
4. The updated Charter
Conclusion
9 Socio-economic impact of COVID-19 infection on human mobility: evidence and perceptions on immigrants in Italy
Introduction
1. The migration-COVID-19 nexus in Italy
2. Arrivals and presences during the COVID-19 health emergency: a syndemic approach
Conclusion and perspectives
MEDIA
10 A global but not Mediterranean pandemic
Introduction
1. Quantitative analysis: dominance of the North
2. France and Spain between vaccines and lockdowns
3. Football, borders and controversy
4. The Balkans: similarities and differences
5. The vaccination strategy of China and Russia
6. Egypt and Turkey, the unusual alliance
7. Middle East: slowness, uncertainty, dismay
8. Migrants desaparecidos
9. COVID and instability
10. Economy in decline and tourists in chaos
11. The Israel paradigm
Conclusions