caa a22 4500 388101016 CHVBK 20180307125320.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020743800052946 doi S0020743800052946 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020743800052946 Bolbol Ali A. Ali A. Bolbol is Professor of Economics at Ryerson Polytechnic University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3, Canada. Arab Trade and Free Trade: A Preliminary Analysis [Elektronische Daten] [Ali A. Bolbol] It would not have been wrong to argue twenty years ago that a united Arab economy would most likely be represented by the economies of Algeria and Iraq. Such an economy would have been characterized as having a promising industrial base, a viable agriculture, and a wealth of oil and mineral resources. From today';s viewpoint, of course, choosing these two countries could not have been more unfortunate. Algeria is in a state of siege that is keeping its economy hostage to political-military considerations, and Iraq's economy, after two wars and an embargo, is in a state of meltdown, to say the least. As a result, today's unqualified image of the Arab economy in general is that of wasted oil wealth, poverty, and political instability. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/1(1999-02), 3-17 0020-7438 31:1<3 1999 31 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800052946 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800052946 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bolbol Ali A. Ali A. Bolbol is Professor of Economics at Ryerson Polytechnic University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3, Canada NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/1(1999-02), 3-17 0020-7438 31:1<3 1999 31 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge