Trade Competitiveness of the Middle East and North Africa: Policies for Export Diversification

A team of researchers, most of them with the Bank, examine the region's trade policy reforms and performance by focusing on the emergence of global supply chains, the growth of trade in services, the rise of China and India as major international trading powers, and regional integration. The topics include extensive and intensive margins in foreign direct investment flows and export diversification, where Tunisia stands on emerging export services, policy responses in the Middle East and North Africa to globalization and competition from China and India, and the economic gains of deeper versus wider integration in the Maghreb. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)