Publication:
Trade, Investment and Development in the Middle East and North Africa : Engaging with the World
dc.contributor.author | World Bank | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-16T15:40:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-08-16T15:40:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
dc.description.abstract | The book describes why expanding trade, and investment is vital for the Middle East and North Africa region. The greatest economic challenge is to create enough jobs for its rapidly growing labor force, which is increasingly young, and educated, to ward off threats to social, and political stability, inherent in high unemployment rates. This effort requires higher, and more sustainable, economic growth than has been achieved in the past two decades. Expanding trade, and private investment offers the best hope. The potential is enormous, given the region's human resources, skills, location, and opportunities. The book also analyzes why the region has yet to tap fully into the rich stream of global commerce, and investment - and the measures needed to do so, including improvements in the domestic investment climate, and reforms in the policies of the region's trading partners. | en |
dc.identifier | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/08/2519543/trade-investment-development-middle-east-north-africa-engaging-world | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 0-8213-5574-0 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15116 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Washington, DC | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | MENA Development Report; | |
dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 IGO | |
dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo | |
dc.subject | ACCESSION AGREEMENTS | |
dc.subject | AGREEMENT ON TRADE | |
dc.subject | AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS | |
dc.subject | AGRICULTURAL TRADE | |
dc.subject | AGRICULTURAL TRADE LIBERALIZATION | |
dc.subject | AGRICULTURE | |
dc.subject | BALANCE OF PAYMENTS | |
dc.subject | BORDER TRADE | |
dc.subject | COMMON STANDARDS | |
dc.subject | COMPETITIVENESS | |
dc.subject | CONSUMER PRICE INDEX | |
dc.subject | CONSUMERS | |
dc.subject | CPI | |
dc.subject | CUSTOMS | |
dc.subject | CUSTOMS UNION | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY | |
dc.subject | DOMESTIC INVESTMENT CLIMATE | |
dc.subject | DOMESTIC LABOR | |
dc.subject | DOMESTIC REFORMS | |
dc.subject | DOMESTIC SUBSIDIES | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC CONDITIONS | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC COOPERATION | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC GROWTH | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC INTEGRATION | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC RELATIONS | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC RESEARCH | |
dc.subject | EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE | |
dc.subject | EMPLOYMENT | |
dc.subject | EXCHANGE RATE | |
dc.subject | EXCHANGE RATE POLICIES | |
dc.subject | EXCHANGE RATES | |
dc.subject | EXPANDING TRADE | |
dc.subject | EXPORT GROWTH | |
dc.subject | EXPORT MARKETS | |
dc.subject | EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES | |
dc.subject | EXPORT PERFORMANCE | |
dc.subject | EXPORT PROCESSING | |
dc.subject | EXPORT PROCESSING ZONES | |
dc.subject | EXPORT PROMOTION | |
dc.subject | EXPORT SUBSIDIES | |
dc.subject | EXPORT-ORIENTED ACTIVITIES | |
dc.subject | EXPORTERS | |
dc.subject | EXPORTS | |
dc.subject | FINANCIAL FLOWS | |
dc.subject | FINANCIAL SERVICES | |
dc.subject | FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT | |
dc.subject | FOREIGN INVESTORS | |
dc.subject | FREE MOVEMENT OF LABOR | |
dc.subject | FREE TRADE | |
dc.subject | FREE TRADE AGREEMENT | |
dc.subject | FREE TRADE AREA | |
dc.subject | GDP | |
dc.subject | GLOBAL COMMERCE | |
dc.subject | GLOBAL INTEGRATION | |
dc.subject | GLOBAL MARKET | |
dc.subject | GLOBAL MARKETS | |
dc.subject | GLOBAL PRODUCTION | |
dc.subject | GLOBAL TRADE | |
dc.subject | GLOBAL TRADE ANALYSIS | |
dc.subject | GLOBAL WELFARE | |
dc.subject | GNP | |
dc.subject | GRAVITY MODELS | |
dc.subject | GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT | |
dc.subject | GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT | |
dc.subject | IMPORT QUOTAS | |
dc.subject | IMPORT TARIFF | |
dc.subject | IMPORT TAXES | |
dc.subject | IMPORTS | |
dc.subject | INCOME | |
dc.subject | INCOME COUNTRIES | |
dc.subject | INCOME DISTRIBUTION | |
dc.subject | INDUSTRY TRADE | |
dc.subject | INSURANCE | |
dc.subject | INTEGRATING COUNTRIES | |
dc.subject | INTERNATIONAL MARKETS | |
dc.subject | INTERNATIONAL STANDARD | |
dc.subject | INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS | |
dc.subject | INTERNATIONAL TRADE | |
dc.subject | INTRAINDUSTRY TRADE | |
dc.subject | INTRAREGIONAL TRADE | |
dc.subject | INVESTMENT CLIMATE | |
dc.subject | INVESTMENT FLOWS | |
dc.subject | INVESTMENT REFORMS | |
dc.subject | INVESTMENT RESPONSE | |
dc.subject | LABOR COSTS | |
dc.subject | LABOR FORCE | |
dc.subject | LABOR MARKETS | |
dc.subject | LABOR SERVICES | |
dc.subject | LEGAL STATUS | |
dc.subject | LIBERALIZING SERVICES | |
dc.subject | LIBERALIZING TRADE | |
dc.subject | LOWERING PROTECTION | |
dc.subject | MARKET ACCESS | |
dc.subject | MARKET SHARE | |
dc.subject | MARKET SHARES | |
dc.subject | MERCHANDISE TRADE | |
dc.subject | MONOPOLIES | |
dc.subject | NATIONAL ECONOMIES | |
dc.subject | NATIONAL INCOME | |
dc.subject | NATURAL RESOURCES | |
dc.subject | NONTARIFF BARRIERS | |
dc.subject | OIL | |
dc.subject | OIL PRICES | |
dc.subject | OIL REVENUES | |
dc.subject | OPEC | |
dc.subject | OPEN ECONOMIES | |
dc.subject | OPEN TRADE | |
dc.subject | OPENNESS | |
dc.subject | ORGANIZATION OF PETROLEUM EXPORTING COUNTRIES | |
dc.subject | PER CAPITA INCOME | |
dc.subject | PER CAPITA INCOMES | |
dc.subject | POLICY REFORMS | |
dc.subject | POLITICAL ECONOMY | |
dc.subject | POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REFORM | |
dc.subject | PRIVATE INVESTMENT | |
dc.subject | PRIVATE SECTOR | |
dc.subject | PRODUCERS | |
dc.subject | PRODUCTION CHAINS | |
dc.subject | PRODUCTIVITY | |
dc.subject | PRODUCTIVITY CHANGE | |
dc.subject | PROTECTION RATES | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC GOODS | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC SECTOR | |
dc.subject | PURCHASING POWER | |
dc.subject | REGIONAL AGREEMENTS | |
dc.subject | REGIONAL INTEGRATION | |
dc.subject | REGIONAL INTEGRATION AGREEMENTS | |
dc.subject | REGIONAL TRADE | |
dc.subject | REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS | |
dc.subject | REGULATORY REFORM | |
dc.subject | RESTRICTIVE RULES OF ORIGIN | |
dc.subject | SAFETY NETS | |
dc.subject | SHARE OF WORLD EXPORTS | |
dc.subject | SPECIALIZATION | |
dc.subject | STRUCTURAL REFORMS | |
dc.subject | SUBSIDIARY RIGHTS | |
dc.subject | TARIFF RATES | |
dc.subject | TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE | |
dc.subject | TELECOMMUNICATIONS | |
dc.subject | TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY | |
dc.subject | TOURISM | |
dc.subject | TRADE | |
dc.subject | TRADE AGREEMENT | |
dc.subject | TRADE CLASSIFICATION | |
dc.subject | TRADE COSTS | |
dc.subject | TRADE EXPANSION | |
dc.subject | TRADE INTEGRATION | |
dc.subject | TRADE LIBERALIZATION | |
dc.subject | TRADE OPENNESS | |
dc.subject | TRADE POLICIES | |
dc.subject | TRADE POLICY | |
dc.subject | TRADE POLICY REFORMS | |
dc.subject | TRADE PROTECTION | |
dc.subject | TRADE REFORM | |
dc.subject | TRADE REFORMS | |
dc.subject | TRADE REGIMES | |
dc.subject | TRADING PARTNER | |
dc.subject | TRADING PARTNERS | |
dc.subject | TRANSACTION COSTS | |
dc.subject | TRANSITION COUNTRIES | |
dc.subject | TRANSPORT COSTS | |
dc.subject | TRANSPORT SERVICES | |
dc.subject | UNEMPLOYMENT | |
dc.subject | UNEMPLOYMENT RATE | |
dc.subject | UNEMPLOYMENT RATES | |
dc.subject | VALUATION | |
dc.subject | VALUATION | |
dc.subject | VALUE ADDED | |
dc.subject | WAGES | |
dc.subject | WELFARE GAINS | |
dc.subject | WORLD | |
dc.subject | WORLD MARKET | |
dc.subject | WORLD MARKETS | |
dc.subject | WORLD TRADE | |
dc.subject | WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION | |
dc.subject | WTO TRADE DEVELOPMENT | |
dc.subject | INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT | |
dc.subject | GLOBAL INTEGRATION | |
dc.subject | LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC POLICY & PLANNING | |
dc.subject | POLITICAL STABILITY | |
dc.subject | GROWTH PATTERNS | |
dc.subject | OIL REVENUES | |
dc.subject | COMPETITIVENESS | |
dc.subject | LABOR MIGRATION | |
dc.subject | JOB CREATION | |
dc.subject | EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES | |
dc.subject | PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH | |
dc.subject | FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS | |
dc.subject | CROSS-COUNTRY EXPERIENCE | |
dc.subject | WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION | |
dc.subject | TRADE INTEGRATION | |
dc.title | Trade, Investment and Development in the Middle East and North Africa : Engaging with the World | en |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research :: Publication | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research :: Publication | |
okr.docurl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/08/2519543/trade-investment-development-middle-east-north-africa-engaging-world | |
okr.globalpractice | Trade and Competitiveness | |
okr.identifier.doi | 10.1596/0-8213-5574-0 | |
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum | 000094946_03092504152661 | |
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum | 2519543 | |
okr.identifier.report | 26761 | |
okr.language.supported | en | |
okr.pdfurl | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2003/10/03/000094946_03092504152661/Rendered/PDF/multi0page.pdf | en |
okr.peerreview | Academic Peer Review | |
okr.region.administrative | Middle East and North Africa | |
okr.sector | Industry and trade :: Other domestic and international trade | |
okr.topic | International Economics and Trade :: Trade and Regional Integration | |
okr.topic | International Economics and Trade :: Free Trade | |
okr.topic | International Economics and Trade :: Trade Policy | |
okr.topic | Economic Theory and Research | |
okr.topic | Environmental Economics and Policies | |
okr.unit | MNA | |
okr.volume | 1 |
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