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                                            Updated: 11/14/2018
                                             
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                                        Wafa Aidi
                                        
                                        
                                             
                                            Economic Affairs Officer
                                            
  
                                            UNECA
                                             
                                            Menelik II Avenue, P.O. Box 3001, Addis Ababa, Eth
                                             
                                            ADDIS ABABA 3001
                                             
                                            Ethiopia
                                        
                                        
  
                                                                    
                                        
                                            aidiw@un.org
                                             
                                        00251947329631 (ph)
                                             
                                        
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                            Biography                         
                            Wafa Aidi is an Economic Affairs Officer within the Regional Integration and Trade Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).  She was granted the grade of Doctor in Economics from both University of Tunis and Toulon. She also has a master in forecasting business cycles and financial markets from the Higher Institute of Management (Tunis). 
 
 Prior to joining UNECA, Wafa has been a researcher within the Higher Institute of Management of Tunis for several years.  She also was visiting scholar in the Graduate Institute of Geneva, Center for Trade and Economic Integration. She has developed solid research abilities in empirical analysis and she is keen on statistical data processing and gained hands-on experience in applied econometrics.
 
 Her research focuses on the social and economic implications of the Covid-19, issues linked to sustainable development, remittances, investment, regional integration index and complementarity between finance and trade integration and has been recognized by refereed international journals such as Journal of Business & Economics, Journal of Economic Integration, Economic Modelling, and Canadian Journal of Development Studies. 
 
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                                 -  The economic and social implications of the African pharmaceutical manufacturing agenda on trade and welfare in Africa   by  Aidi, Wafa and Stephen Karingi     Publication: Presented during the 25th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis (Virtual Conference)    Resource Type: 2022 Conference Paper    Keywords: Advances in quantitative methods, Model extension/development, GTAP Data Base and extensions, Other ... -  Impact of the Covid-19 on remittances and Economic growth in Africa: Theoretical framework and empirical evidences   by  Aidi, Wafa and  Stephen Karingi    Publication: Presented during the 24th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis (Virtual Conference)    Resource Type: 2021 Conference Paper    Keywords: Dynamic modeling, Economic development, Africa (Central), Africa (East), Africa (North), Africa (Sou...
                             
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