TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chauffour,Jean-Pierre
AU  - Chauffour,Jean-Pierre
TI  - Trade integration as a way forward for the Arab world: A regional agenda 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Arab World
KW  - Emerging Markets
KW  - Free Trade
KW  - International Economics & Trade
KW  - Knowledge Platforms
KW  - Non-Tariff Measures
KW  - Pafta
KW  - Preferential Trade Agreements
KW  - Services Liberalization
KW  - Trade and Regional Integration
KW  - Trade Integration
KW  - Trade Law
KW  - Trade Policy
KW  - Trade Rules and Discipline
N2  - The current political turmoil for more open and participative societies in many Arab countries coupled with the emergence of new growth poles around the world could create the conditions for a big push toward greater regional and global trade integration of the Arab world. Further integrating Arab countries among themselves and opening up the region to the rest of the world are two complementary avenues to improve market access, promote behind-the-border regulatory reforms, facilitate cooperation on regional public goods, foster the emergence of an "Arab factory" through regional supply chains and productions networks, and eventually create the conditions for more and better paid jobs for the growing Arab workforce. A more ambitious trade agenda in the context of the Pan-Arab Free Trade Area would be a good place to start. Although difficult and challenging, and requiring a good dosage of flexibility and variable geometry, such an agenda would consist of (1) completing the free movement of goods within the Pan-Arab Free Trade Area, notably through the elimination of unnecessary non-tariff barriers; (2) implementing a regional initiative to liberalize services trade, including identifying a number of pilot service sectors for early regional liberalization; and (3) strengthening the rules and discipline applicable to regional trade and other policies of common interest
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-5581
ER  -