{"id":1052,"date":"2023-02-13T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T16:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiw.ac.at\/publications\/regional-trade-integration-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-lessons-from-central-europe\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T14:47:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T12:47:56","slug":"regional-trade-integration-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-lessons-from-central-europe","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.fiw.ac.at\/en\/publications\/regional-trade-integration-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-lessons-from-central-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"FIW-PB 14 Regional Trade Integration in the Middle East and North Africa: Lessons from Central Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"lang-attribute\">Abstract:<br>In this paper regional integration among the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is addressed. There are a number of economic and integration blocs with one or more MENA countries\u2019 participation, but there is no one overarching agreement that would cover the whole MENA region. The results of various gravity model calculations suggest that intra-MENA trade is below its potential. Intra-MENA trade is a small fraction (5.9% in exports, 5.1% in imports) of the MENA countries\u2019 total trade. Exports to the EU are ten times, imports from the EU eight times more relevant than intra-MENA trade flows. The most recent goal of the EU-MENA cooperation has been the creation of a deep Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area, aimed at a substantial liberalization of trade between both the EU and Southern Mediterranean countries (North-South), and Southern Mediterranean countries themselves (South-South). Recent research result point out that a successful revival of intra-regional trade in Central Europe was conditional upon these countries\u2019 close integration with the EU. In the case of the Central European countries close integration meant full EU membership, what is for the MENA not available currently. Nevertheless a provision of some of the main attributes of deep integration with the EU, even without full membership, may facilitate intra-MENA trade to a similar way as it did for Central Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"lang-attribute\">Sandor Richter (wiiw)<br>Regional Trade Integration in the Middle East and North Africa: Lessons from Central Europe<br>FIW-Policy Brief 14<br>March 2012<br>Language: English<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Zusammenfassung:<br>In diesem Beitrag wird die regionale Integration zwischen den L\u00e4ndern des Nahen Ostens und Nordafrikas (MENA) behandelt. Es gibt eine Reihe von Wirtschafts- und Integrationsbl\u00f6cken, an denen ein oder mehrere MENA-L\u00e4nder beteiligt sind, aber es gibt kein \u00fcbergreifendes Abkommen, das die gesamte MENA-Region abdecken w\u00fcrde. Die Ergebnisse verschiedener Gravitationsmodellberechnungen legen nahe, dass der Intra-MENA-Handel unter seinem Potenzial liegt. Der Intra-MENA-Handel macht nur einen kleinen Teil (5,9 % bei den Ausfuhren, 5,1 % bei den Einfuhren) des gesamten Handels der MENA-L\u00e4nder aus. Die Ausfuhren in die EU sind zehnmal, die Einfuhren aus der EU achtmal so hoch wie die Intra-MENA-Handelsstr\u00f6me. Das j\u00fcngste Ziel der EU-MENA-Zusammenarbeit ist die Schaffung einer weitreichenden Europa-Mittelmeer-Freihandelszone, die auf eine wesentliche Liberalisierung des Handels sowohl zwischen der EU und den L\u00e4ndern des s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraums (Nord-S\u00fcd) als auch den L\u00e4ndern des s\u00fcdlichen Mittelmeerraums selbst (S\u00fcd-S\u00fcd) abzielt. J\u00fcngste Forschungsergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass eine erfolgreiche Wiederbelebung des intraregionalen Handels in Mitteleuropa von der engen Integration dieser L\u00e4nder in die EU abh\u00e4ngig war. Im Falle der mitteleurop\u00e4ischen L\u00e4nder bedeutete eine enge Integration die volle EU-Mitgliedschaft, was f\u00fcr die MENA-L\u00e4nder derzeit nicht gegeben ist. Dennoch k\u00f6nnte die Bereitstellung einiger der wichtigsten Merkmale einer tiefen Integration in die EU, auch ohne Vollmitgliedschaft, den Intra-MENA-Handel in \u00e4hnlicher Weise erleichtern, wie es in Mitteleuropa der Fall war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sandor Richter (wiiw)<br>Regionale Handelsintegration im Nahen Osten und Nordafrika: Lehren aus Mitteleuropa<br>FIW-Policy Brief 14<br>M\u00e4rz 2012<br>Sprache: Englisch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","jelcode":[],"keyword":[153,142,151,152,150],"class_list":["post-1052","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","keyword-central-europe","keyword-eu","keyword-middle-east","keyword-north-africa","keyword-regional-trade-integration"],"acf":{"year":2012,"month":3,"day":"","volume":"","number":"014","pages":9,"reviewed":"","citeid":"FIW_PB_014","fiwseries":"FIW Policy Briefs","event":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FIW-PB 14 Regional Trade Integration in the Middle East and North Africa: Lessons from Central Europe - FIW<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiw.ac.at\/en\/publications\/regional-trade-integration-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-lessons-from-central-europe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FIW-PB 14 Regional Trade Integration in the Middle East and North Africa: Lessons from Central Europe - FIW\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Abstract:In this paper regional integration among the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is addressed. 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