Author/Authors :
EL OUFIR, MOUNA UNIVERSITY MOHAMMED V -RABAT - INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN STUDIES, Morocco , CHEGRAOUI, KHALID UNIVERSITY MOHAMMED V-RABAT - INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN STUDIES, Morocco
Abstract :
UMA was founded on 17 February 1989, when the Constitutive Treaty of the Union of Maghreb Arab, was signed by the five Heads of State in Marrakech. UMA’s objectives include: -The consolidation of fraternal relations binding the Member States and their peoples; -The progressive realization of the free movement of persons, services, goods and capital between Member States; -The adoption of a common policy in all areas. In economic terms, the common policy is to ensure the industrial, agricultural, commercial and social development of member states. This article try to treat capacity economic building issue of UMA, and, with a view to strengthening regional integration of the UMA in relation to other African communities and to emerge through a field survey the key areas of this integration. Maghrebian economic integration consists in undertaking of the following reforms by the UMA countries themselves: (i) Liberalization of the trading of goods and services, (ii) coordination of economic policies, (iii) setting up of a fixed exchange rate system or possible adoption of a single currency. Etc… All these dimensions of economic integration are in fact interlinked, and in order to strengthen them, accompanying measures are necessary. The formulation of the aforementioned capacity building must be stated in the plan of action to be adopted by all the UMA countries, and the support and monitoring of all the partners in all the phases of the attainment of integration.
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Regional integration , building capacity , UMA , Economic Emergence
