MEDPRO Reports


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Scenarios for the Agricultural Sector in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean
05 March 2013
Saad Belghazi

The paper builds predictive scenarios for the agricultural sector of eleven southern and eastern Mediterranean countries (SEMCs), namely Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. First, it assesses the performance trends of the SEMCs’ agricultural sector, with a focus on production, consumption and trade patterns, incentives, trade protection policies and trade relations with the EU, productivity dynamics and their determinants.

What prospects for transport infrastructure and impacts on growth in southern and eastern Mediterranean countries?
21 February 2013
Robin Carruthers

Lack of adequate infrastructure is a significant inhibitor to increased trade of the countries of the Mediterranean region. Bringing their transport infrastructure to standards comparable with countries of a similar per capita GDP will be costly but worthwhile.

Population Scenarios for South Mediterranean Countries: 2010-2050
14 August 2012

George Groenewold, Joop de Beer, Corina Huisman

This MEDPRO project report describes four population growth scenarios for 11 countries in the Mediterranean region, using the MEDPRO economic-political development framework to consider how indicators of fertility, mortality, and international migration might change if people in these countries were to live in different macro-economic and political contexts. The paper also reflects on the results obtained in light of recent political developments in the region.

Tourism in the Mediterranean: Scenarios up to 2030
25 July 2011
Robert Lanquar

For the last two decades, the 11 countries of the Southern Mediterranean (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey) have recorded the highest growth rates in inbound world tourism, with domestic tourism increasing rapidly too. The economic performance of tourism in the 'MED 11'  has been astonishing, given the security risks, natural disasters, oil prices rises and economic uncertainties in the region and the recent financial crisis.