necessary conditions for the success of a monetary integration (Sharp 2005, Jonung 2002). Within Maghreb, the completion of the … regional integration process, initiated in 1989 by the creation of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) and the establishment of the … Maghreb monetary union would have a positive impact on economic growth, good governance and political stability. In this paper …

Over the past two decades, the Maghreb Countries have initiated a liberalization process characterized by increasing … estimations. Our main results suggest that while trade intensity may help to harmonize business cycles in Maghreb countries, the …

This paper examines a number of key factors that have an impact on economic development in the Maghreb. While growth … employment situation paint a different picture. Furthermore, the Maghreb economies have remained over-regulated and plagued by a … incapable of providing the right solutions for the Maghreb states’ problems. The paper argues that a failure to tackle …

Three Maghreb countries (namely Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) using Granger causality test. The results do not tend to …

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of the integration of Maghreb countries into a free trade area on … estimate the gains or the potential losses of various plans of trade integration (Free trade area for the Maghreb countries …, Custom Union between Maghreb countries, Maghreban Common Market). Our study suggests that the overall gains from liberalizing …

During the Arab banks-summit in Paris last June 2008, the project of monetary integration in the Maghreb (Algeria … Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) and expanded last years to cover the possibility of establishing the Maghreb monetary union. Our … aim in this paper consists in assessing the relevance of such a project for three Maghreb countries: Algeria, Morocco and …

Three Maghreb countries (namely Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) using Granger causality test. The results do not tend to …

Central Bank governors to adopt a single currency by 2021 and the call from the union of Maghreb banks in November 2007 to … create one currency for the Maghreb (Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia) raises the same doubts as to the …