Champions wanted : promoting exports in the Middle East and North Africa
tarafından
 
Jaud, Mélise, author.

Başlık
Champions wanted : promoting exports in the Middle East and North Africa

Yazar
Jaud, Mélise, author.

ISBN
9781464804601
 
9781464804618

Yazar Ek Girişi
Jaud, Mélise, author.

Fiziksel Tanımlama
xviii, 69 pages : illustrations, tables ; 26 cm.

Seri
Directions in development. Trade

İçerik
Acknowledgments ix About the Authors xi Overview xiii Abbreviations xvii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Exports for Growth, More and Better Jobs 1 Firm-Level Perspectives on MENA Trade Performance 1 References 6 Chapter 2 One Champion, but No Team 7 Key Messages 7 Who Are MENA Exporters? 7 Alone at the Top 13 Lacking Market Power 16 And Failing to Drive Comparative Advantage 16 Notes 19 References 19 Chapter 3 Priced out of Global Markets 21 Key Messages 21 Exchange Rate Policy in MENA 21 Under-Exporting and Over-Importing 22 Overvaluation Hurts 24 Notes 27 References 27 Chapter 4 Getting Policy Right 29 Key Messages 29 The Policy Environment in MENA 29 Tariffs, NTMs, and Market Power 31 Tariffs Limit Global Value Chains 32 Regulatory Convergence as Export Promotion 35 Laissez-Passer: It Matters 40 vi Contents Champions Wanted • http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0460-1 Notes 44 References 44 Chapter 5 Industrial Policy in MENA: The Small and the Big 47 Key Messages 47 Export Promotion: Too Small to Matter 47 Champions or Cronies? 52 Note 54 References 54 Chapter 6 Building Export Champions: Implications for Policy 57 MENA Needs More Export Champions 57 Some Policy Leads 58 Appendix A Firm-Level Data and Competitiveness Indicators 61 Appendix B Superstars and Revealed Comparative Advantage across Industries 67 Appendix C NTM Regulatory Distance Methodology 69

Özet
“While other emerging regions have been thriving, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s aggregate export performance over the past two decades has been consistently weak. Using detailed firm-level export data from Customs administrations, Champions Wanted explains why. One central finding of the book is that the size distribution of MENA’s exporting firms is suggestive of a critical weakness at the top. With the exception of the top firm, MENA’s elite exporters are smaller and weaker compared to their peers in other regions. The largest exporter is alone at the top—Zidane without a team. MENA countries have failed to nurture a group of export champions, which critically contribute to export success in other regions. Part of the reason behind this weak export performance is the lack of a competitive real exchange rate. The deleterious effects of an uncompetitive currency can be traced all the way down to the firm level, hurting expansion at the intensive and extensive margins and preventing the emergence of export takeoffs. The lack of heavyweight exporters at the top of the distribution also reflects the region’s failure to push for trade and business climate reforms energetically. Finally, the region’s prevalent cronyism and corruption under pre†“Arab Spring regimes (at least) confirms that business-government ties have led to distortionary allocation of favors and rent dissipation by beneficiary firms, with little evidence that those firms have developed into national champions or helped lift the region’s export performance. The possibility of state capture in itself should call for caution when advocating any form of government intervention. In contrast, some interventions, such as export promotion programs, show some effects on smaller exporters. However, because these firms are marginal in trade, such programs cannot be game changers. More broadly, the success of MENA countries in promoting export growth and diversification, as well as generating jobs, depends heavily on their ability to create an environment where large firms can invest and expand exports and new, efficient firms can rise to the top. This book offers some policy leads on how to achieve this goal.”

Konu Başlığı
Foreign trade promotion -- Middle East.
 
Dış ticareti geliştirme -- Orta Doğu.
 
Foreign trade promotion -- Africa, North.
 
Dış ticareti geliştirme -- Afrika, Kuzey.
 
Exports -- Middle East.
 
İhracat -- Orta Doğu.
 
Exports -- Africa, North.
 
İhracat -- Afrika, Kuzey.

Yazar Ek Girişi
Freund, Caroline L.,


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