The paper reviews the status of MENA agriculture trade and policies in relation with the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture and future WTO negotiations. Using country-specific economy-wide models, the paper quantifies the impact of unilateral trade liberalization and reduction in domestic...

This paper reviews Egypt's experience of SAM-based CGE modeling, dating back to the mid-1970s. Its purpose is to extract lessons for the future application of such models to Egypt and other LDCs. The paper provides a detailed review of seven models, covering their data bases, key aspects of...