multilateral cooperation when countries are linked by international trade flows and transboundary pollution. …

Starting from the observation that intra-regional trade flows in the Mashreq are abnormally low, the paper reviews the … existing trade agreements and the alternative options that the countries of the region could embrace in order to deepen their … trade relations. This discussion is set against the background of two major factors that are shaping the region's trading …

This paper overviews and analyzes Egypt's service sector, its commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in …

conflicts. Trade and democracy are traditionally thought of as goods, both in themselves, and because they reduce the …

We examine the endogenous formation of trade blocs when markets are characterized by imperfect competition and … simple model of intra-industry trade between three ex-ante symmetric countries, we find that, while 'pure' customs unions … - entailing tariff cooperation only - are stepping stones towards global free trade, 'impure' customs unions - involving the …

number of firm characteristics are found to imply significantly different financing constraints: government ownership, trade …

Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country … diverse interpretations. In many cases, the indicators of "openness" used by researchers are poor measures of trade barriers … the link between trade policy and growth have serious shortcomings. Papers that we review include Dollar (1992), Ben …

The role of education, technological diffusion and trade is investigated for 11 MENA countries for 1980-1992, using …