Title: Europe and the Mediterranean economy /
Authors: Costa-i-Font, Joan.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Mediterranean Region Foreign economic relations European Union countries.; European Union countries Foreign economic relations Mediterranean Region.; Mediterranean Region Economic policy.; Mediterranean Region Economic integration.
Contents: Part I: Institutionalism and the Mediterranean area. The importance of institution-building on free trade agreements / Mireia Borrell-Porta -- Cross-regionalism and MENA countries / Alfred Tovias -- Shallow versus deep integration scenarios in the Euro-Mediterranean area : a quantitative assessement / Nicolas Péridy -- Part II: Liberalisation and macroeconomic performance in the Mediterranean. The transmission of growth shocks in the EU to MENA / Reinout De Bock, Daniel Florea and Joël Toujas-Bernaté -- Have the promises used to sell the Euro-Mediterranean partnership come true? Illustration from the Tunisian experience / Mohamed A. Chemingui and Hedi Bchir -- The global financial crisis and the Euro-Mediterranean partnership / Simon Neaime -- Part III: Privatisation, labour markets and productivity in the Mediterranean. The political economy of privatization in the Maghreb region : how domestic and external factors have shaped the privatization process and outcomes / Mhamed Biygautane and Mohammed Lahouel -- The impact of trade policy on wages : evidence from Egypt / Mona Said -- Trade, productivity and technical change in the MENA countries / Joaquín A. Millán -- Part IV: Social welfare and public policy in the Mediterranean. The financial sector and poverty in the MENA countries / Muhsin Kar ... [et al.] -- EU migration policy and the Euromed process : the role of traditional and new determinants / Nicolas Péridy -- The economic, social and environmental impacts of the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area / Clive George.