A Global Integration Strategy for the Mediterranean Countries: Open Trade and Market Reforms

Author/Editor:

Oleh Havrylyshyn

Publication Date:

September 12, 1997

Summary:

The economy of the Mediterranean region countries - which in the present study include Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, as well as Israel and Turkey - experienced a period of strong and dynamic economic development in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But since the 1980s these economies have experienced a much less dynamic evolution and tended toward stagnation. This paper by Oleh Havrylyshyn, presents an assessment of the experience of these economies in a framework of a broad trade strategy perspective for Mediterranean countries, and examines prospects for the future.

Series:

Books

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

September 12, 1997

ISBN/ISSN:

9781557756473

Stock No:

GISMEA0000000

Pages:

39

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