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An analytical study of the effect of the Sahel-Sahara Agreement on Egyptian foreign trade

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Agricultural Economic

Abstract

The world has recently witnessed many economic developments and changes that have effectively contributed to the occurrence of radical changes in the movement of foreign trade between each other, as Egypt has concluded many trade agreements that it signed with many different countries and global blocs. In this research, the focus was on The Sahel-Sahara Agreement is one of the newest African economic groupings. Where this agreement was signed on February 4, 1998 in Tripoli, Libya, as a basis for the establishment of a comprehensive economic union among African countries, and it is one of the leading economic groupings that work on developing Arab-African economic relations. Therefore, the research mainly aimed to stand on the impact of the Sahel-Sahara Agreement on foreign trade and its repercussions on the Egyptian trade balance in general and the agricultural and food balance in particular. On the overall variables of the Egyptian total, agricultural and food trade during the period before the application of the agreement (1994-2000) and the period after the application of the agreement (2014-2020). The agreement countries, which means that there is a positive impact of the application of the partnership agreement between Egypt and the countries of the agreement, while they did not have the same success rates for agricultural and food foreign trade, which indicates the presence of a negative impact of the agreement agricultural and food, despite the fact that the agreement countries enjoy many preferential and comparative advantages in terms of agricultural and food together.

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2022.127100.1113

Keywords

Egyptian foreign trade, coastal countries, desert countries

Authors

First Name

Talat H.

Last Name

Ismail

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Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt

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talat.abdelrahman@agr.aun.edu.eg

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assiut

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First Name

Mohammed A.

Last Name

Abo Nahol

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-

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt

Email

abonahol@aun.edu.eg

City

assiut

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-

First Name

Galal A.

Last Name

Al-Saghir

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-

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt

Email

gaewada1@yahoo.com

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assiut

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First Name

ٍSayed A.

Last Name

Hassan

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-

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt

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sayed.abdelnasser@agr.aun.edu.eg

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assiut

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Volume

53

Article Issue

2

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35032

Issue Date

2022-06-01

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2022-03-13

Publish Date

2022-06-01

Page Start

129

Page End

144

Print ISSN

1110-0486

Online ISSN

2356-9840

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/article_241082.html

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62

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Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/

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An analytical study of the effect of the Sahel-Sahara Agreement on Egyptian foreign trade

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22 Jan 2023