Competition policy plays an increasing role worldwide, both at the national and international level. The number of countries with competition laws has increased to about seventy as of 1999, against less than thirty only three decades earlier. One of the many reasons that lie behind this renewed...

Developing countries have a considerable stake in supporting a comprehensive new round of multilateral trade negotiations within the World Trade Organization (WTO) in order to achieve further trade liberalization and benefit from intersectorial trade-off.For their constructuve particiaption in...

This empirical study investigates the process of adjustment of imports to changes in the level of domestic activity (income) and the relative prices in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries. The aim is to provide new estimates if the aggregate demand for imports in these countries over...

A review of recent studies that attempt to estimate the potential gain from the Arab region integration in the World economy indicates initial losses of significant gains. The paper reviews development in the Arab region, examines relevant recent experience from SE Asia, and attempts to outline...

The paper aims to identify the interests and concerns of MENA countries in the new round of multilateral trade negotiations (the WTO 2000 negotiations) with a view of helping these countries develop negotiation objectives and strategies.

The paper reviews the status of MENA agriculture trade and policies in relation with the Uraguay Round Agreement on Agricultural and future WTO negotiations.

This paper looks at the implications of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership agreement on labor and wages in Egypt, using a dynamic CGE model, which takes into account the labor market segmentation. Our results suggest that trade liberalization bears the risk of promoting the use of...

The purpose of the paper is to study how globalization has affected the trade regime, industrial and labor market policies in Turkey. The paper concentrates on three aspects related to globalization: changes in trade regime, changes in industrial policies and issues related to labor markets. The...