01800cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF000564 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451921267 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Havrylyshyn, Oleh. Opening Up and Geographic Diversification of Trade in Transition Economies / Oleh Havrylyshyn, Hassan Al-Atrash. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998. 1 online resource (27 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 This paper looks at the progress in transition and the geographic diversification of trade, focusing on two issues--the degree of trade openness and trade integration--for a sample of countries in transition. It concludes that about half of the group of countries sampled are becoming as open as similar market economies, but that many others remain relatively closed. Geographic diversification (to the European Union) is found to be greater the closer is geographic proximity and the more advanced the country is with reforms. The analysis is then extended, in an illustrative way, to show how much larger would be the share of exports to the EU if structural reforms were more ambitious. Mode of access: Internet Al-Atrash, Hassan. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/022 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1998/022/001.1998.issue-022-en.xml IMF e-Library