EMENA manufactured exports and EEC trade policy

Bela Balassa

No 282, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: This paper examines the implications for EMENA of EEC trade policy. Following an analysis of EEC trade agreements with EMENA countries, the paper has shown that EMENA's trade performance in the EEC has been far from uniform. While Turkey and Morocco, who carried out economic reforms, increased their market share to a considerable extent, the European socialist countries and Iran lost market shares. The paper further indicates that the comparative advantage of the EMENA coutntries lies in labor intensive products, with the low wage countries having good prospects in unskilled labor intensive products and the socialist EMENA countries in skill intensive products. At the same time, the investigation of export prospects would have to be carried further by providing greater product and country detail.

Keywords: Environmental Economics&Policies; TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT; Trade and Regional Integration; Water and Industry; Trade Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989-09-30
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