As a result of internal and external factors, Yemen has seen significant economic difficulties during the first half of the nineties of the last century. Internally, these difficulties were because of the unification of two different economies with two different trends. The objective of this paper is to study the effect of the economical reform, which is implemented by the government, on the agricultural  and the foreign trade sectors under the light of the new world economic order and the government direction to implement the economical reform program.
  The study concludes that there is an increase of the average of the cultivated areas and the quantity and the values of the totals agricultural production. However, this increase is not in line with the increase in population. It is found that there is an increase of the total variables of the foreign trade which has been studied during the period 1990- 2008. It is also found that the policy of the economic reform program helped in improving the trade deficit.
Recommendations:
1- Increase the openness to the world through holding trade treaties with many countries and markets with the need to diversify the exports sources.
2- Re-rationalize the use of the oil resources and the trade surplus in increasing the productive efficiency of other economic sectors.
3- Raise the rates of performance in various economic sectors, particularly, those sectors that save Yemeni imports and raise self-sufficiency
4- Continue in implementing the economic reform program along with a institutional reforms to get its advantages and to get ride of its disadvantages.
5- Carry out plans for exporting and importing based on the average values and the economic efficiency in using the revenue.