Within the context of the follow-up to the single market review, the European Commission has screened EU manufacturing and service sectors for problems of market malfunctioning. This paper investigates the nature of these problems in the 23 selected sectors and focuses on the following four...

Reforms, market dynamics and productivitry in developing countries / Khalid Sekkat -- Exit-entry dynamics : case of the manufacturing sector in Jordan / Nesreen Barakat and Ibrahim Saif -- Industrial dynamics and productivity in Morocco : Lahcen Achy and Khalid Sekkat -- Entry, exit, and...

Recent empirical evidence on the impact of reforms in a number of developing countries shows that such persistence of inefficiency and market power is specific to MENA. Showcasing in-depth analyses from Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey (with comparative data from Asia and Latin America),...