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UNINA9910460389703321 |
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Jaud Mélise |
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Champions wanted : promoting exports in the Middle East and North Africa / / Mélise Jaud and Caroline Freund |
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Washington, District of Columbia : , : World Bank Group, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (91 p.) |
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Collana |
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Directions in Development. Trade |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Free trade - Middle East |
Free trade - Africa, North |
Electronic books. |
Middle East Commercial policy |
Africa, North Commercial policy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Front Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors""; ""Overview""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction""; ""Exports for Growth, More and Better Jobs""; ""Firm-Level Perspectives on MENA Trade Performance""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2 One Champion, but No Team""; ""Key Messages""; ""Who Are MENA Exporters?""; ""Alone at the Top""; ""Lacking Market Power""; ""And Failing to Drive Comparative Advantage""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3 Priced out of Global Markets""; ""Key Messages""; ""Exchange Rate Policy in MENA""; ""Under-Exporting and Over-Importing"" |
""Overvaluation Hurts""""Notes""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4 Getting Policy Right""; ""Key Messages""; ""The Policy Environment in MENA""; ""Tariffs, NTMs, and Market Power""; ""Tariffs Limit Global Value Chains""; ""Regulatory Convergence as Export Promotion""; ""Laissez-Passer: It Matters""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Chapter 5 Industrial Policy in MENA: The Small and the Big""; ""Key Messages""; ""Export Promotion: Too Small to Matter""; ""Champions or Cronies?""; ""Note""; ""References""; ""Chapter 6 Building Export Champions: Implications for |
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""MENA Needs More Export Champions""""Some Policy Leads""; ""Appendix A Firm-Level Data and Competitiveness Indicators""; ""Appendix B Superstars and Revealed Comparative Advantage across Industries""; ""Appendix C NTM Regulatory Distance Methodology""; ""Boxes""; ""Box 1.1 Exports Matter for Jobs: Evidence from Tunisia""; ""Box 2.1 Sanctions and Trade Deflection: Evidence from the Islamic Republic of Iran""; ""Box 4.1 Regulatory Harmonization and Firm Performance in Morocco: What Should We Expect?""; ""Box 4.2? How Valuable Is Market Access? Evidence from the West Bank"" |
""Box 5.1 Export Support: Remedy or Addictive Drug?""""Figures""; ""Figure B1.1.1 Trade Participation and Employment""; ""Figure 2.1 Who Are MENA Exporters?""; ""Figure 2.2 Distribution of Firms and Export Values by Product-Destination Coverage""; ""Figure 2.3 How Diversified Are MENA Exporters?""; ""Figure B2.1.1 Exporters Dynamics with or without Sanctions""; ""Figure 2.4 The Top Firm Is Unique in MENA""; ""Figure 2.5 MENA Exporters Lack Punching Power""; ""Figure 2.6 Export Superstars and Revealed Comparative Advantage""; ""Figure 3.1 Trade Costs in MENA"" |
""Figure 4.1 Comparative Evolution of Average Tariffs, 1980's, 1990's, 2000's""""Figure 4.2 NTMs in MENA: From Command-and-Control to Regulations""; ""Figure 4.3 Trade Policy and Pricing-to-Market""; ""Figure 4.4 Trade Protection on Final and Intermediate Inputs in MENA""; ""Figure 4.5 Imported Inputs and Export Prices in Morocco""; ""Figure 4.6 Cross-Country Regulatory Distances""; ""Figure 4.7 Harmonization of Moroccan NTMs with EU Regulations""; ""Figure 4.8 Did Harmonization Protect Morocco's Home Market?"" |
""Figure B4.2.1 Mobility Restrictions and Economic Performance in the West Bank"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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While other emerging regions were thriving, MENA's aggregate export performance over the past two decades has been consistently weak. Using detailed firm-level export data from Customs administrations, this report explains why. One central finding is that the size distribution of MENA's exporting firms is suggestive of a critical weakness at the top. With the exception of the top firm, MENA's elite exporters are smaller and weaker compared to their peers in other regions. The largest exporter is alone at the top-Zidane without a team. MENA countries have failed to nurture a group of export sup |
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