IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/pugtwp/331520.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The Impact of the Multifiber Agreement Phase out on trade in North African Countries: a Prospective Analysis

Author

Listed:
  • Ben Hammouda, Hakim
  • Oulmane, Nassim
  • Sadni-Jallab, Mustapha

Abstract

Textile and clothing industries are key sectors in the economy of Maghreb countries and may experience major turnovers further to the Multifiber Agreement (MFA) phasing out that started on 1 January 2005. The countries of the region have made substantive efforts in anticipation of these turnovers. They have defined response strategies and are also implementing national industrial and trade policies to accompany this MFA phasing out. The object of this paper is to assess theses response strategies. The model used in this paper is a simplified version of the GTAP model (version 6.0). Our results show that the implementation of the free trade agreement (FTA) with Turkey and United States of America would reduce the negative effect of the removal of quotas in only a modest way. In contrast, a « pan-euroMediterranean » FTA would have a more positive effect. This scenario should entail an improvement of the GDP of all the countries of the region and could also be very favourable to the European Union, particularly in terms of welfare.

Suggested Citation

  • Ben Hammouda, Hakim & Oulmane, Nassim & Sadni-Jallab, Mustapha, 2006. "The Impact of the Multifiber Agreement Phase out on trade in North African Countries: a Prospective Analysis ," Conference papers 331520, Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:pugtwp:331520
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/331520/files/2557.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. van de Walle, Dominique, 1998. "Assessing the welfare impacts of public spending," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 26(3), pages 365-379, March.
    2. Deaton, A. & Ng, S., 1996. "Parametric and Nonparametric Approaches to Price and Tax Reform," Cahiers de recherche 9601, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques.
    3. Decaluwe, B. & Patry, A. & Savard, L. & Thorbecke, E., 1999. "Poverty Analysis Within a General Equilibrium Framework," Cahiers de recherche 9909, Université Laval - Département d'économique.
    4. Shigeru Iwata & Mohsin S. Khan & Hiroshi Murao, 2003. "Sources of Economic Growth in East Asia: A Nonparametric Assessment," IMF Staff Papers, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 50(2), pages 1-1.
    5. Filmer, Deon & Hammer, Jeffrey & Pritchett, Lant, 1998. "Health policy in poor countries : weak links in the chain," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1874, The World Bank.
    6. Aaron, Henry & McGuire, Martin, 1970. "Public Goods and Income Distribution," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 38(6), pages 907-920, November.
    7. Castro-Leal, Florencia & Dayton, Julia & Demery, Lionel & Mehra, Kalpana, 1999. "Public Social Spending in Africa: Do the Poor Benefit?," The World Bank Research Observer, World Bank, vol. 14(1), pages 49-72, February.
    8. van de Walle, Dominique, 1995. "Public spending and the poor : what we know, what we need to know," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1476, The World Bank.
    9. Lanjouw, Peter & Ravallion, Martin, 1999. "Benefit Incidence, Public Spending Reforms, and the Timing of Program Capture," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 13(2), pages 257-273, May.
    10. Alderman, Harold & Lavy, Victor, 1996. "Household Responses to Public Health Services: Cost and Quality Tradeoffs," The World Bank Research Observer, World Bank, vol. 11(1), pages 3-22, February.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Nakar Djindil Syntiche & Tabo Symphorien Ndang & Toinar Mogota Anatole, 2007. "A qui profitent les dépenses sociales au Tchad? Une analyse d'incidence à partir des données d'enquête," Working Papers PMMA 2007-11, PEP-PMMA.
    2. Klasen, Stephan & Reimers, Malte, 2017. "Looking at Pro-Poor Growth from an Agricultural Perspective," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 90(C), pages 147-168.
    3. Essama-Nssah, B., 2008. "Assessing the redistributive effect of fiscal policy," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4592, The World Bank.
    4. Raphaël Cottin, 2018. "Free health care for the poor: a good way to achieve universal health coverage? Evidence from Morocco," Working Papers DT/2018/16, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation).
    5. Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, 2007. "Budget Policy and Income Distribution," International Center for Public Policy Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU paper0707, International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University.
    6. Kanayo K. Ogujiuba, 2022. "Which Demographic Quintile Benefits from Public Health Expenditure in Nigeria: A Marginal Benefit Analysis," Economies, MDPI, vol. 10(10), pages 1-17, October.
    7. Lindelow, Magnus, 2002. "Health care demand in rural Mozambique," FCND discussion papers 126, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    8. Céline DE QUATREBARBES & Luc SAVARD & Dorothée BOCCANFUSO, 2011. "Can the removal of VAT Exemptions support the Poor? The Case of Niger," Working Papers 201106, CERDI.
    9. Wagstaff, Adam, 2002. "Inequalities in health in developing countries - swimming against the tide?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2795, The World Bank.
    10. Margitic, Juan & Ravallion, Martin, 2019. "Lifting the floor? Economic development, social protection and the developing World's poorest," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 139(C), pages 97-108.
    11. Paul Collier & Stefan Dercon & John Mackinnon, 2002. "Density versus Quality in Health Care Provision: Using Household Data to Make Budgetary Choices in Ethiopia," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 16(3), pages 425-448, December.
    12. Cormac O'Dea & Ian Preston, 2012. "The distributional impact of public spending in the UK," IFS Working Papers W12/06, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
    13. Kausik K. Bhadra, 2016. "Inequality Effects of Fiscal Policy: Analysing the Benefit Incidence on Health Sector in India," Working Papers id:8433, eSocialSciences.
    14. Andy McKay, 2002. "Assessing the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Poverty," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2002-43, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    15. Patrick Guillaumont & Laurent Wagner, 2014. "Aid Effectiveness for Poverty Reduction: Lessons from Cross‑country Analyses, with a Special Focus on Vulnerable Countries," Revue d’économie du développement, De Boeck Université, vol. 22(HS01), pages 217-261.
    16. Mawuli Gaddah & Alistair Munro & Peter Quartey, 2015. "The rich or the poor: who gains from public education spending in Ghana?," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 42(2), pages 112-131, February.
    17. Mr. Erwin H Tiongson & Mr. Hamid R Davoodi & Sawitree S. Asawanuchit, 2003. "How Useful Are Benefit Incidence Analyses of Public Education and Health Spending," IMF Working Papers 2003/227, International Monetary Fund.
    18. Patrick GUILLAUMONT, 2009. "Aid effectiveness for poverty reduction: macroeconomic overview and emerging issues," Working Papers P05, FERDI.
    19. Amedeo Spadaro & Lucia Mangiavacchi & Ignacio Moral-Arce & Marta Adiego-Estella & Angela Blanco-Moreno, 2013. "Evaluating the redistributive impact of public health expenditure using an insurance value approach," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 14(5), pages 775-787, October.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:pugtwp:331520. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/gtpurus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.