TY  - BOOK
AU  - Galal,Ahmed
AU  - Hoekman,Bernard M.
TI  - Arab Economic Integration: Between Hope and Reality
SN  - 9780815796015
AV  - HC498 -- .A7192 2003eb 
U1  - 337.1/174927 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Washington
PB  - Brookings Institution Press
KW  - Arab cooperation
KW  - Arab countries -- Economic conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Arab Economic Integration -- 1 Between Hope and Reality: An Overview of Arab Economic Integration -- 2 The Economics and Politics of Arab Economic Integration -- 3 Egypt's Export Puzzle -- 4 A Survey of Barriers to Trade and Investment in Arab Countries -- 5 Alternative Paths to Prosperity: Economic Integration among Arab Countries -- 6 Initial Conditions and Incentives for Arab Economic Integration: Can the European Community's Success Be Emulated? -- 7 What Can Arab Countries Learn from Europe? An Institutional Analysis -- Contributors -- Index
N2  - Improving the economic performance of Arab countries is now more critical than ever. The region faces high population growth rates, rising unemployment, and modest economic growth coupled with increasingly intense competition from emerging markets in eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Meeting these challenges requires finding ways to overcome political obstacles that impede socially beneficial economic reforms. Despite fifty years of repeated attempts at Arab economic integration, the results in terms of intraregional trade and investment flows have been very modest. This book explains why and discusses possible ways forward. The authors draw especially on the success of the European Union to assess the scope of Arab economic integration as an instrument for narrowing the persistent gap between the region¡s̄ economic potential and its performance
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