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Anchoring reform with a US-Egypt free trade agreement.


HF1456

2005-047454

0-88132-368-3

Anchoring reform with a US-Egypt free trade agreement.

Galal, Ahmed and Robert Z. Lawrence Robert Z. Lawrence, a former South African national, is the current Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. .

Institute/Internat'l Economics, [c]2005

77 p.

$20.00 (pa)

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And this is a douce, honest man.
- Sir W. Scott.
 commerce be an answer in the Middle East? Galal (Egyptian Center for Economic Studies and the World Bank), Lawrence (trade and investment, Harvard U.) and their contributors believe a free trade agreement between Egypt and the US would have benefits for both, arguing that an FTA FTA
abbr.
Future Teachers of America
 would further Egypt's economic progress, stimulate regional reform, avoid trade diversion Trade diversion is an economic term related to international economics in which trade is diverted from a more efficient exporter towards a less efficient one by the formation of a free trade agreement.  and improve bilateral economic relations. They believe that such an agreement should include reduction or elimination of tariffs This is a list of tariffs and trade legislation:
  • List of tariffs in Canada
  • List of tariffs in United States
  • List of tariffs in India
  • List of tariffs in China
  • List of tariffs in Russia
, of course, but also concentrate on policies that would attract US investment into Egypt. The outcome, they claim, will be domestic social, political and economic reforms in the country and in the region.
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