type="main" <p>This article explores whether trade facilitation – i.e. improved and simplified trade procedures – could be an important part of the reform agenda of the Barcelona Process. Adopting a Southern perspective by focusing on exports to the European Union (EU) from non-EU Mediterranean...</p>

The objective of the paper is to explore and give an overview of two central policy alternatives to improve the integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade facilitation. The author reviews the relevant literatures and...

Emigrants' remittances have increased rapidly over the past two decades. While earlier studies have focused on their microeconomic effect on incomes and poverty in recipient countries, the present study concentrates on the macroeconomic impact of remittances on the real exchange rate in Cape...

Recent years have seen an increased use of quantitative restrictions in passenger car trade. In this paper we investigate the impact of import surveillance on product and pricing policies of car manufactures in the Swedish car market over the period 1986–1989. Evidence is found of...

[spa] Desocupación de los jóvenes y funcionamiento del mercado laboral : el caso francés y el sueco - En Francia como en Suecia, el desempleo de los jóvenes de menos de 25 años aumentó como consecuencia de los choques macroeconómicos de los años setenta y ochenta. No obstante, este...

[eng] Sweden: The Limits of the Welfare State Yves Bourdet Prior to the first oil crisis the Swedish model consisted of a successful combination of an active macroeconomic and employment policy and an advanced Welfare State. Since then, the oil crises and the various shocks in the world economy...

[eng] Why do long-term unemployment outcomes differ in Western Europe ? The paper presents evidence of the decisive role of labour market policy design in affecting unemployment outcomes. By concentrating on only two countries, it also deepens the understanding of how the effects come about....

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