Trade competitiveness of the Middle East and North Africa : : policies for export diversification / / Jose R. Lopez-Calix, Peter Walkenhorst, and Ndiame Diop, editors

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2010
• Descrizione fisica: xxii, 336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; ; 23 cm
• Disciplina: 330.956
• Soggetto topico: Exports - Middle East; Exports - Africa, North; Free trade - Middle East; Free trade - Africa, North
• Soggetto geografico: Middle East Commerce; Africa, North Commerce; Middle East Commercial policy; Africa, North Commercial policy; Middle East Economic integration; Africa, North Economic integration
• Altri autori: LópezJosé Roberto WalkenhorstPeter DiopNdiame
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Chapter 1: Trade Reforms for Export Competitiveness: What Are the Issues for the Middle East and North Africa?; Export Diversification; Services Trade; Relations with China and India; Regional Integration; Note; References; PART I: Export Diversification; Chapter 2: FDI Flows and Export Diversification: Looking at Extensive and Intensive Margins; Chapter 3: Promoting New Exports: Experience from Industry Case Studies; Chapter 4: Export Diversification in Algeria; PART II: Services Trade ; Chapter 5: Emerging Export Services: Where Does Tunisia Stand?Chapter 6: Anchoring Services Reform: The European Neighborhood Policy and Morocco; Chapter 7: Services Trade as an Engine of Development: Situation and Prospects in Algeria; PART III: Relations with China and India; Chapter 8: Economic Growth in China and India: Challenges and Opportunities for the Middle East and North Africa; Chapter 9: Globalization and Competition from China and India: Policy Responses in the Middle East and North Africa; PART IV: Regional Integration ; Chapter 10: Regional Integration: Status, Developments, and ChallengesChapter 11: Economic Gains of Regional Agreements in the Maghreb: Deeper versus Wider Integration; Index; Back cover
• Sommario/riassunto: This book collects some of the most relevant and policy oriented-papers that the MENA department of the World Bank produced as contributions to trade reform and exports diversification in some MENA countries. The selected articles were written during the critical 2005-08 years, a period featuring an accelerated pace of trade reform, increasing competition from China and India in European markets, and an increasing regional concern about exports diversification either in oil-producing countries, like Algeria, or in emerging services-oriented countries, like Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. The book
• Titolo autorizzato: Trade competitiveness of the Middle East and North Africa
• ISBN: 1-282-72551-3; 9786612725517; 0-8213-8075-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791478503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Directions in development (Washington, D.C.); Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). . -Trade.; World Bank e-Library.