
Morocco’s experience in addressing the economic fallout from #COVID-19 illustrates many of the economic challenges that middle-income countries are facing and the fiscal limitations they confront.
A visiting fellow at Brookings, Abouzzohour holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Oxford where she taught comparative politics, international relations, and economic governance. Her research focuses on authoritarian persistence and transition, strategic regime behavior and interactions with opposition movements, and mixed methods research. She is currently writing a book on regime survival in MENA monarchies and completing several projects on the politics and economy of North African states. Abouzzohour previously worked as a Political Risk Analyst at Oxford Analytica and holds a B.A. (Hons) in Political Science from Columbia University.
Morocco’s experience in addressing the economic fallout from #COVID-19 illustrates many of the economic challenges that middle-income countries are facing and the fiscal limitations they confront.
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