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Completing the path to free trade

Completing the path to free trade
10/16/2012 - Nathalie Bureau du Colombier | Socio-economic assessments
Fifteen years after the Barcelona agreement, the much-desired convergence between the Mediterranean countries and the European Union has not taken off as expected or required. With regard to trade, tariff and non-tariff barriers are still too high and there is a long way to go before services are...
Barcelona agreement, Ben Ali, DEFI, Economic Development and Inter, liberalization, Mediterranean, Morocco, Nathalie Roux, Origin regulations, Turkey

Moroccan SMEs plagued by opaque credit access

Moroccan SMEs plagued by opaque credit access
10/15/2012 - Nathalie Bureau du Colombier | Socio-economic assessments
Morocco has made a successful transition to a free-market economy by entering into increasing numbers of trade agreements in recent years. However, its SMEs are penalised by inequality in terms of taxes and credit access. Researchers have just established a direct link between these access problems and the productivity of SMEs, in a report submitted to Femise in July 2010.
banking system, corporate accounting, DEFI, Femise, financing, Morocco, Patricia Augier, SME

International financial integration remains a key objective of structural reform in the Mediterranean region

International financial integration remains a key objective of structural reform in the Mediterranean region
10/08/2012 - Frédéric Dubessy | Reflections
By Dr Thomas Lagoarde-Segot, associate professor at Euromed Management Marseille and affiliated researcher at DEFI – Aix-Marseille University
Aix-Marseille, crisis, DEFI, destabilisation, economic requirements, economies, euro-mediterranean, euromed management, financial, institutions, management, markets, Marseille, Mena, shift contagion, thomas Lagoarde-Segot, university, Washington consensus


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