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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Current State of Trade and Investment Relations -- Evolution of US-Egypt Trade Initiatives: From Aid to Trade? -- Egypt's Market Reforms: Enhancing Access and Bolstering Competitiveness -- Remaining Challenges: The Future Agenda -- Chapter 3 Moving Forward: Options to Enhance Economic Relations -- Enhancing Market Access in Goods: Expanding the QIZ -- Stimulating Services Trade through a US-Egypt Services Trade Agreement -- Modernizing the Bilateral Investment Treaty -- Cooperation on Trade Facilitation Measures -- Cooperation to Enhance Egypt's Trade Capacity: Infrastructure, Education, and Beyond -- Chapter 4 Summing Up -- Appendix A Comparison of US Bilateral Investment Treaties with Uruguay and Egypt -- Appendix B Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Increase Foreign Direct Investment? -- References -- Timeline of Key Events in US-Egypt Economic Relations -- Index.

Intro -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Board of Directors -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Cuba -- Chapter 1 -- Cuban Fundamentals -- Settlement of Claims -- Gradualist Normalization -- Big Bang with Monopoly Capitalism -- Big Bang with Market Capitalism -- Chapter 2 -- Special Period, 1990-2000 -- Backsliding, Late 1990s to Early 2000s -- Raúl Castro Reforms, 2006 to Present -- Chapter 3 -- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and World Trade Organization -- Organization of American States -- African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States and Forum of the Caribbean Group of ACP States -- Latin American Integration Association and Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America -- Bilateral Investment Treaties -- World Intellectual Property Organization -- Bilateral Aid Relations -- Chapter 4 -- Major Legislation -- Recent Reforms -- Myanmar Is No Precedent -- Chapter 5 -- World Trade Organization and Most Favored Nation Status -- Pleasure and Medical Tourism -- International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and Inter-American Development Bank -- Sugar Exports -- Chapter 6 -- Forecasting Trade and Investment -- Trade Potential -- Investment Potential -- Chapter 7 -- Investment Agreements -- Intellectual Property Rights -- Open Skies for Civilian Aircraft -- Immigration and Professional Visas -- Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration -- Sanitary and Phytosanitary and Technical Barriers to Trade Regulations -- Free Trade Agreement -- Chapter 8 -- What Can the United States Offer Cuba? -- What Can Cuba Offer the United States? -- Sequencing "Gives" and "Gets" -- References -- Index -- Other Publications from the Peterson Institute for International Economics -- Distributors Outside the United States List -- Back Cover.

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