Monetary Policies, Banking Systems, Regulation and Growth in the Southern Mediterranean

Monetary Policy, central banking, and international norms and regulations; a discussion far from new, nor applying exclusively to the world's most advanced economies. A sound monetary policy and a well-enforced regulatory regime is provided, in explanation of developing nations to channel financial resources more efficiently into investments.

RYM AYADI is Senior Research Fellow and Head of Research of the Financial Institutions, Prudential Policy and Tax Unit at the Centre for European Policy Studies. She is Director of MEDPRO, a 3 Million Euro EU-funded project for prospective analysis in the Mediterranean.

Dr. Ayadi has more than 12 years of expertise in financial markets, regulation and supervision, crisis management, competition and enterprise and consumer policies, risk management, financial consolidation efficiency, regulatory impact assessment in financial services, financial services provision and financial inclusion, financial integration, retail financial services and payment systems in Europe and off-shore financial centers.

Previously, she lectured international financial institutions and markets, and financial and risk analysis at Post-graduate level at the International Business School on the Isle of Man. Prior to that, she worked as an economist at the French banking association and at the European Commission in Directorate General Economics and Financial Affairs and lectured industrial economics and game theory at the University of Lille II and at the University Paris Dauphine.

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