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rospects for Global and Regional Integration in the MaghrebThe project addresses Maghreb integration with the European Union and the United States as well as integration within the Maghreb region itself. It estimates the potential gains from tariff liberalization for the Maghreb countries and how best to remove nontariff barriers in several key sectors of their economies. In light of the great interest of the United States and the European Union in achieving political stability in the Maghreb region, this project assesses in particular the potential role of those two players in promoting a much higher degree of regional integration within the Maghreb.
Event Materials
Audio
Papers and Presentations
Introduction and Overview |
Fred Bergsten, Peterson Institute Mostafa Terrab, Office Cherifien des Phosphates Group |
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Keynote Speakers |
Ambassador John Veroneau, Deputy US Trade
Representative Dan S. Sullivan, Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs |
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Presenters |
Stuart Eizenstat
Covington & Burling |
Political Economy and Regional
Integration
paper [pdf]| remarks [pdf] |
Dean DeRosa
ADR International Ltd |
Trade and Investment
paper [pdf] |
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Gravity Model Analysis
paper [pdf]| presentation [pdf] |
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Antoine Bouët
International Food Policy Research Institute |
A MIRAGE Model Analysis
presentation [pdf] |
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Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Peterson Institute |
Recommendations to Revive Regional Integration
paper [pdf]| presentation [pdf] |
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Francis Ghilès
European Institute of the Mediterranean |
Energy Sector Study
paper in French [pdf] |
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Abderrahmane Hadj Nacer
International Maghreb Merchant Bank |
Banking and Insurance Sector Study
paper in French [pdf] |
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Nordine Ouabdesselam
Janair |
Transport Sector Study
paper [pdf] |
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Hassan Benabderrazik
Agro-Concept |
Food Industry Sector Study
paper [pdf] |
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Closing Remarks |
Ambassador Aziz Mekouar of Morocco Ambassador Mohamed Nejib Hachana of Tunisia |
Clippings on the Morocco-USA Free Trade Agreement
The United States and the Kingdom of Morocco Negotiate Free Trade Agreement as Old Friends with New Priorities In an April 23, 2002, White House ceremony, President George W. Bush and His Majesty (HM) King Mohammed VI of the Kingdom of Morocco jointly announced the intention of the two historically close nations to secure a Free Trade Agreement. A U.S. Morocco Free Trade Agreement will be the culmination of a long history of economic cooperation that includes the 1991 U.S. Morocco Bilateral Investment Treaty and the 1995 Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA). ...
News about US/Morocco free trade on Marketplace Radio (heard on select public radio stations)
Ketama
Gold puts Morocco top of Europe's cannabis league Trying to please Europe
by persuading farmers to grow avocados is not succeeding
Giles Tremlett in Chaouen, Morocco Tuesday May 27, 2003 The
Guardian
Dealers off the colourful Outa el Hammam square in the medina were at their
most solicitous. "Hello my friend. You want kif? I have very good stuff,
10 euros, come and smoke some." ...........
Homegrown cannabis outstrips imports from Morocco
Alan Travis, home affairs editor Monday March 17, 2003
Lost
jobs done in Morocco for 50p an hour .
Oct 14 2002 By Ceri Jones, The Western
DEWHIRST workers have lost their jobs to foreign workers paid just 50p an hour,
it was revealed last night. The news is the final insult to more than 500 staff
at the company's last remaining factories in Wales who will lose their jobs
next month.......
IMF upbeat on Morocco
Friday, 3 August, 2001,
Morocco's reforms are paying off but the country needs step up the pace of economic
growth to deal with poverty and unemployment, according to the International
Monetary Fund......
Morocco's bid to win
back its people.
By Eileen Byrne, In Casablanca Monday, 16 September, 2002
Mohammed Khatiri looks every inch a Euro-Moroccan yuppie as he sits in a stylish
Casablanca café. Five months ago he returned to the country he left as a child
in 1970, to run a local building renovation business he had acquired with his
brother........................
Moroccan
jobless left adrift.
Wednesday, 12 June, 2002, By Eileen Byrne In Rabat
It sounded too good to be true. When Saed, 25, heard on the grapevine
that Gulf-based Al-Najat Marine Shipping wanted to hire 30,000 Moroccans to
work on cruise ships, it was a chance not to be missed.............
Bush Gets Moroccan View of
the Middle East
Nora Boustany Washington Post Wednesday April 24, 2002 A18
After postponing his wedding and planned public festivities this month as a
gesture of sympathy for the recent loss of life in the West Bank, Morocco's
King Mohammed VI arrived Sunday on a state visit to Washington without his intended
bride. He lunched at the White House yesterday with President Bush, who sounded
out the 39-year-old monarch on an Israeli-proposed Middle East peace conference.
Bush plans to hear the views of other U .S. allies when Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah
visits Crawford, Tex., this week and when Jordan's King Abdullah arrives in
early May, Moroccan sources disclosed. MORE
President
Calls for Free Trade Agreement with Morocco.
Office of the Press Secretary April 23, 2002
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