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This note series is intended to summarize good practices and key policy findings on poverty reduction and economic management (PREM) topics.
Start date: 2000 × End date: 2009 × Region: Middle East and North Africa × Has files: Yes ×

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    Access to Preshipment Export Finance : Do Guarantees Help?
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2007-04) Alavi, Hamid
    Many small- and medium-sized emerging exporters in developing countries have inadequate access to short-term working capital to finance their export transactions. This is mainly due to a market failure resulting from informational asymmetries on the part of banks about exporters' ability to execute export orders according to buyers' standards of quality, cost, and delivery. Several countries have established pre-shipment export finance guaranty facilities to help alleviate this market failure. Their aim is to act as catalyst to temporarily share nonperformance risks of exporters with the banks, allowing the banks to evaluate nonperformance risks of emerging exporters. Some countries have implemented these facilities successfully encouraging banks to provide pre-shipment finance without guarantees, while others have not. This note draws on Tunisia's experience to outline the necessary conditions for the success of these facilities.
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    Best Practices in Customs Reform - Lessons from Morocco
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2002-04) De Wulf, Luc ; Finateau, Emile
    Successful trade policy reform, often requires customs reform. In the 1990s Morocco's trade policies were strongly influenced by its agreement with the European Union, with the World Trade Center, and the Multi-fiber Agreement, which led the Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration to examine its procedures. Customs reforms were based on the principles of the World Customs Organization, supported by technical assistance provided by the International Monetary Fund and bilateral partners. Such reforms were the result of public-private partnerships, focused on four main areas: 1) simplified procedures and selective controls; 2) increased use of information technology; 3) improved management of special customs procedures; and, 4) enhanced transparency and partnerships with the private sector.