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Middle East and North Africa countries' agricultural export potentials under trade reforms
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Abstract
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries future stand in the world's economy depends to a large extent on the potentials of their agriculture to perform in a free trade world. EU is the largest market for agricultural products of MENA countries, though new outlets and new partnerships can expan... view more
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries future stand in the world's economy depends to a large extent on the potentials of their agriculture to perform in a free trade world. EU is the largest market for agricultural products of MENA countries, though new outlets and new partnerships can expand the market of their produce. Enhancing agriculture's potentials safeguards the economy's general expansion and impede the flee of MENA countries' huge labor reserves to the developed world. In this work, introducing a few possible trade reforms, a general equilibrium model is employed to assess the impacts upon region's export potentials and welfare changes. Selecting certain distinct scenarios from a wide spectrum of anticipated trade reforms, and feeding them into the model, insights on the direction of the expected changes and rough estimates of accrued benefits can be extracted. The model results suggest that the region might benefit the most under special provisions for developing countries in a WTO agreement, while in the case of EU-Med agreement agricultural trade will benefit MENA countries and can induce economic growth through the expansion of agricultural exports.... view less
Classification
Economic Sectors
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Economic Policy
Free Keywords
trade reform; MENA countries; Mediterranean countries; agricultural exports; trade agreements
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
Page/Pages
p. 1591-1599
Journal
Applied Economics, 42 (2010) 12
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840701721497
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)