Analytical estimation of EU - Morocco potential free agricultural trade area

Abstract

In this research an effort is made to point out some of the basic aspects on the discussion and extension of potential agreements in the free agricultural trade chapter from a quantitative optics. In order to support policy recommendations on how this liberalization could be made and which could be the effects for the Moroccan economy,a simulation is developed. The analysis allows, on the one hand, to determine which would be the increases in exports and imports of Morocco and, on the other hand, to incorporate Input-Output Tables and a dynamic model of structural change in the Moroccan economy, derivative of the technological development and the changes in the way of production of that country.Free Trade Agreement; EU neighbourhood policy; Agricultural liberalization; ACP; Input-Output simulation