Morocco and Tunisia have both achieved robust economic growth over the last 30 years by utilizing prudent economic … Morocco and Tunisia have transformed both from economically challenged debt-burdened nations into technologically advanced …, diversified and thriving middle-class nations. From 1962 to the Present Day, Morocco has averaged a GDP growth rate of 5.8% and …

regional policies aiming to promote local development through FDI flows? Although Morocco has 16 regions, it is in practice … divided into "two Moroccos": The Casablanca-Tangier axis or ‘‘Rich Morocco'' (North-West) and the marginalized territories or … ‘‘Poor Morocco'' (South / East / Middle). As would be expected, most of the FDI inflows are located in the Casablanca …

Morocco using seasonal cointegration techniques. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH - The paper uses seasonal integration and … output at the zero frequency for Egypt, Jordan and Morocco. This suggests that money affects nominal but not real variables …

contrast the impacts of the Morocco-EU free trade area (FTA) to multilateral trade liberalization on Morocco’s economy …. Simulation results show that the FTA agreement is likely to have adverse effects on Morocco due to: (a) deteriorating terms of … liberalization scenario along the lines of those proposed under the Doha Development Round and find this more beneficial to Morocco …

manufacturing firms in Tunisia using a stochastic frontierproduction model applied to cross-section data. Results indicate that … maximum 99.5% with an average technical efficiency estimateof 86.5%. This implies olive oil manufacturing firms in Tunisia can … modernization programmeimplemented in Tunisia. The estimated coefficients in the technical inefficiency effectsmodel indicate that …

evidence of inefficient use of energy in Tunisia, since environmental pressure tends to rise faster than economic growth … mutual causality in the long-run implying that Tunisia is an energy dependent economy.From a policy perspective, policy … makers in Tunisia should be mindful that a persistent decline in environmental quality may exert negative externalities to …

For the past two decades, Tunisia has been undertaken important structural reforms,which call in most cases for market …

Tunisia, since environmentalpressure tends to rise faster than economic growth. In theshort run, results support the argument … response do notconfirm the hypothesis that an increase in pollution levelinduces economic expansion. Although Tunisia has …