The OIC intra-trade reached 17% in 2012 and the member countries have committed to increase it to 20% by 2015. The 5th OIC Consultative Group Meeting on enhancing OIC intra-trade recommended the establishment of Trade Finance Support Schemes, as one of the driving factors, to accelerate the...

This study analyses the effects of financial openness on productive efficiency and technology catch-up in four countries in the Basin (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia), as compared to a group of developed countries (France, Germany, Japan and the UK) over the 1985–2005 period. Using...

We develop an endogenous growth model with overlapping generations taking into account important characteristics of the developing countries: high public external debt and large informal sector. We show that an increasing of the public external debt has two opposite effects. On the one hand, it...

This study analyses the effects of financial openness on productive efficiency and technology catch-up in four countries in the Mediterranean Basin (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia) as compared to the situation about the same in a group of developed countries (France, Germany, Japan, and the...

The OIC intra-trade reached 17% in 2012 and the member countries have committed to increase it to 20% by 2015. The 5 th OIC Consultative Group Meeting on enhancing OIC intra-trade recommended the establishment of Trade Finance Support Schemes, as one of the driving factors, to accelerate the...