## A Global Integration Strategy for the Mediterranean Countries: Open Trade and Market Reforms

_Books, September 12, 1997_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Oleh Havrylyshyn
- Published: September 12, 1997
- Series: Books
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557756473.071

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### Summary
- Author: Oleh Havrylyshyn
- Publication date: September 12, 1997
- Core focus: assessment of Mediterranean region economies within a broad trade strategy perspective and examination of prospects for the future.
- Geographic scope (as defined in the study): Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Israel, Turkey.
- Historical pattern reported:
  - Period of strong and dynamic economic development in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
  - Since the 1980s these economies have experienced a much less dynamic evolution and tended toward stagnation.

### Major themes and analytical focus
- Comparative advantage and its implications for Mediterranean countries.
- Exports and imports patterns and performance.
- International trade policy instruments: tariffs and trade liberalization.
- Trade creation and trade diversion cost considerations.
- Long-run trade liberalization adjustment and liberalization risk.
- Role of factor markets, free trade zones, and access to EU export markets.

### Topics and keywords (as listed)
- Comparative advantage
- Exports
- Imports
- International trade
- Tariffs
- Trade liberalization
- amount of trade
- BOOK
- countries of the region export
- country export
- East Asia
- EU export market
- EU market
- EU trade
- Europe
- factor market
- free trade zone
- Global
- liberalization risk
- long-run trade liberalization adjustment
- Mediterranean country market
- Mediterranean region country
- trade creation
- trade diversion cost

*International Monetary Fund — A Global Integration Strategy for the Mediterranean Countries: Open Trade and Market Reforms (Oleh Havrylyshyn), September 12, 1997.*

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