01736cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF000340 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451973167 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Kunzel, Peter. Intra-Industry Trade of Arab Countries : An Indicator of Potential Competitiveness / Peter Kunzel, Oleh Havrylyshyn. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997. 1 online resource (26 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Recent and ongoing agreements to liberalize trade between the European Union (EU) and Arab countries raises the question as to how the latter will fare in a more competitive environment. This paper uses the Grubel-Lloyd intra-industry trade (IIT) index as an indicator of the degree of industrial specialization to study Arab countries' ability to compete in a more open trade setting. It concludes that whereas increased specialization has been achieved over the last decade in Arab countries, IIT remains low not only in absolute terms, but even in a cross-country comparison, when normalized for the level of development. Mode of access: Internet Havrylyshyn, Oleh. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/047 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1997/047/001.1997.issue-047-en.xml IMF e-Library