Optimal Regional Trade-Integration Schemes in North Africa: Toward a Pro-Industrialization Policy

Abstract

This article examines the status of industrial production in North African Countries as well as the role that regional trade integration through free-trade agreements and trade facilitation may play in spurring this region's reindustrialization. The study uses Applied General Equilibrium model to assess the potential impact of the establishment of a Continental Free Trade Area as well as the reduction of costs to trade across borders. This article also measures the additional impact of the implementation of the Great Optimal Regional Trade-Integration Schemes in North Africa : Toward a Pro-Industrialization Policy jei