Trade, Investment and Development in the Middle East and North Africa : Engaging with the World

World Bank

Trade, Investment and Development in the Middle East and North Africa : Engaging with the World

2003

World Bank

The book describes why expanding trade, and investment is vital for the Middle East and North Africa region. The greatest economic challenge is to create enough jobs for its rapidly growing labor force, which is increasingly young, and educated, to ward off threats to social, and political stability, inherent in high unemployment rates. This effort requires higher, and more sustainable, economic growth than has been achieved in the past two decades. Expanding trade, and private investment offers the best hope. The potential is enormous, given the region's human resources, skills, location, and opportunities. The book also analyzes why the region has yet to tap fully into the rich stream of global commerce, and investment - and the measures needed to do so, including improvements in the domestic investment climate, and reforms in the policies of the region's trading partners.

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Washington, DC

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Cross-country experience; Investment climate; Open economies; Political economy of reform; Export processing; Labor force participation; Protection rates; Wto trade development; Regional integration; Producers; International standards; Labor costs; Global trade analysis; Investment flows; Economic cooperation; Export performance; Trading partners; Oil; Market share; Liberalizing trade; Share of world exports; Gdp; Oil prices; Political stability; Development assistance; Organization of petroleum exporting countries; Free movement of labor; Productivity change; Export opportunities; Political economy; Global commerce; Economic research; Intraregional trade; Consumer price index; Trade policy; Market shares; Exchange rates; Transition countries; Total factor productivity; Specialization; Exporters; Lowering protection; World market; Cpi; Trade policy reforms; Labor force; Merchandise trade; Regional trade; Trade agreement; Production chains; Integrating countries; Income countries; Customs; Export-oriented activities; Domestic reforms; Import tariff; Domestic labor; Investment reforms; Foreign direct investments; Transport costs; Trade regimes; Growth patterns; Tariff rates; Global welfare; Domestic investment climate; Trade reform; Export growth; Labor services; Competitiveness; Per capita incomes; Subsidiary rights; Customs union; Trade classification; Trading partner; Unemployment rate; Openness; Common standards; Agricultural trade liberalization; Accession agreements; Open trade; International markets; Investment response; Regional integration agreements; Empirical evidence; Productivity growth; Agreement on trade; National economies; Expanding trade; Job creation; Regulatory reform; Policy reforms; Trade expansion; Import taxes; Global trade; Free trade area; Oil revenues; Economic policy & planning; Employment opportunities; Financial services; Structural reforms; Purchasing power; Global market; Welfare gains; Global markets; Trade integration; Exchange rate policies; Global production; Liberalizing services; Gravity models; Nontariff barriers; Global integration; Free trade agreement; Export markets; Technological change; Border trade; Foreign investors; Labor migration; Safety nets; Industry trade; World trade; Trade costs; Unemployment rates; Regional agreements; International standard; Financial flows; Labor markets; Foreign direct investment; Regional trade agreements; Intraindustry trade; Trade openness; Per capita income; Transport services; Trade reforms; Domestic subsidies; Restrictive rules of origin; Export processing zones; Investment environment; Opec; Economic relations

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MENA Development Report;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igoWorld BankCC BY 3.0 IGO

ISSN

8213-5574

Fuente

MENA Development Report;

En AGRIS desde: 2014-09-15

Formato: AGRIS AP

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Trade, Investment and Development in the Middle East and North Africa : Engaging with the World

2003

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