Beside its membership (1995) in the World Trade Organization (WTO), Egypt joined Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) such … Egyptian RTAs. Although the RoO can indeed be regarded as a Non-Tariff Barrier (NTB) for Egypt as a common country in Euro …-Med, COMESA and GAFTA, most of the inputs that are used in the Egyptian products originate in Egypt, in the EU or in countries …

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 … Tunisia one of 5.1%. To put that in perspective, the World as-a-whole has grown at 2.0% per year and the United States at 1 …

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 …