Dans cette contribution, l'auteur cherche, a travers l'etude de l'evolution de l'industrie textile, a comprendre les raisons de l'accroissement rapide des IDE (Investissements Directs Etrangers) en Tunisie depuis le debut des annees 70 et leur declin a partir du milieu des annees 80. Dans cette...

This paper draws some lessons for the Egyptian economy from recent crisis episodes in Latin America and East Asia. Egypt is striving to achieve higher sustainable growth rates to increase the welfare of its population. Opening up the capital account presents both opportunities and dangers....

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...

Interest in economic policy and performance in Iran under the Islamic Republic remains vigorous two decades after the Revolution. Since 1979, Iran has undergone important socio-economic and institutional changes and has been affected by significant economic and political upheavals. This paper...

The European Union has recently launched the overall enlargement process with the ten Central and East European countries (CEEC) and with Cyprus. Bilateral intergovernmental conferences will soon be convened to begin negotiations with Hungary, Poland, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and...

Starting from the observation that intra-regional trade flows in the Mashreq are abnormally low, the paper reviews the existing trade agreements and the alternative options that the countries of the region could embrace in order to deepen their trade relations. This discussion is set against the...

Fertility in the MENA countries shows that transition is an undeniable trend in this region, where the paradigm of demographic transition seemed to lose all its credibility. Analysis of the proximate determinants of fertility shows that contraception is becoming the leading inhibiting factor,...

The paper examines the behavior of stock prices in four GCC markets: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The data consists of weekly stock price indexes from September 1994 to April 1998. Three tests of the weak form of the efficient market hypothesis(EMH) are applied. The first two, unit...

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 article reviews the different methods of constructing multilateral output and productivity indices for agriculture in cross-country panel studies. We show that various multilateral output indices used by different researchers can have considerable disparities, thus rendering the comparison...