[PDF] Asymmetries In Regional Integration And Local Development eBook

Author : Paolo Giordano
Publisher : IDB
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 1597820040

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Regional integration and territorial development in Latin America / Paolo Giordano, Francesco Lanzafame, and Jörg Meyer-Stamer -- Free trade agreements and asymmetries : proposals to foster gains from trade / Inés Bustillo and José Antonio Ocampo -- Comparative integration patterns : transatlantic lessons / Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda -- Compensating asymmetries in regional integration agreements : lessons from Mercosur / Roberto Bouzas -- Differential regional competitiveness : opportunities and constraints / Ann Markusen and Clélio Campolina Diniz -- The regional challenge : European and Latin American experiences / Francisco Xabier Albistur Marin -- Globalization and local policy implementation : the challenge to practitioners / Greg Clark -- Local economic development : what makes makes it difficult, what makes it work / Jörg Meyer-Stamer.

Author : Ron Böhler
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3668538638

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Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - Other International Politics Topics, grade: 2.0, University of Bath, language: English, abstract: ‘[T]he long history of failed regional agreements in South America and some developments in the integration process have raised some doubts about the capacity of bloc members to accomplish their ambitious intentions’. The hesitant progress in Latin American regional integration (Mercosur) caused increasing distrust if the uneven distribution of power resources and abilities within the region can lead to successful and steady integration processes. Is the regional hegemon Brazil perhaps too powerful in order to let this demanding project succeed? Power configurations in regional orders are, so will be argued, a double-edged sword: While asymmetric power structures are possibly a prerequisite for deepening integration processes, but they can also cause conflict between less powerful states on the one hand and leading ones on the other. According to power transition theory, satisfaction about the prevalent power structures among actors can be assumed to be the second precondition for effective integration. Conflict is then guaranteed when power parity between two or more dissatisfied actors is established. Both perspectives will be discussed and assessed in the subsequent sections, after the concept of power in multilateral relations is defined and asymmetries detected. Two examples, the European Union and Mercosur, shall exemplify the efficacies and tensions behind imbalanced power structures among regional powers and their will and ability to integrate further.

Author : Wil Hout
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785364375

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Author : Mario Pines
Publisher :
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 2013
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The perspective of a successful continental economic integration relies on specific stratified beneficial factors or combination of factors as well as on the evolution of institutional and legal business homogeneous local infrastructures. Investments and international outsourcing activities are generally stimulating the globalization processes, the consequent wave of mergers and acquisitions, especially in the finance, commerce and telecommunication sectors, are consolidating the efficient enterprises structure and their international headquartering and development. A heated debate is going on among academics and politicians and bills seeking to restrict outsourcing forwarding industrial activities have been recently discussed in several European States; it is difficult to deal with these issue dispassionately, considering the European enlargement process and no attention has been put on pre-existing and growing spectacular asymmetries in both finance logistics and transportation industry. Outsourcing and FDI and global logistics are probably a plus for the economy in the long run. Any economic change, whether arising from trade or technology, can cause painful dislocations for some activities, anyway large scale emigrations would represent a worse scenario.During the last century, the historical lag between the institutional political regulations and current business requirements and perspectives have been advocating some asymmetries in a highly diverging environment and the viable solutions adopted reflect ancient advantages and leave unexploited some local favorable provisions and natural assets. In restructuring and discovering the business and firm appropriate configuration, within the competitive frameworks, the successfully growing enterprise eventually requires a global strategic integration as an option to redevelop an international locally self-sustaining production independent units network. Pending the EU association and adhesion phases, the relocating factors are showing an integrating economy over all the European Continent with some few specific coordinating, managing and financial pooling centers. All these factors should be considered from the legislative and institutional bodies stemming from a national oriented economic pattern. The global economy as a resulting alternative to outdated autarchic attitudes in a competitive global market must reconsider some preexisting asymmetries within the European scenario.

Author : Maurice W. Schiff
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 25,92 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821350782

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This text examines regionalism from the perspective of developing countries. It presents a comprehensive account of existing theory and empirical results and incorporates the findings of formal analyses ofthe politics and dynamics of regionalism.

Author : Richard Baldwin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2011-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400841232

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Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However, these efforts--collectively known as the "new economic geography"--have devoted little attention to the policy implications of the new theory. Economic Geography and Public Policy fills the gap by illustrating many new policy insights economic geography models can offer to the realm of theoretical policy analysis. Focusing primarily on trade policy, tax policy, and regional policy, Richard Baldwin and coauthors show how these models can be used to make sense of real-world situations. The book not only provides much fresh analysis but also synthesizes insights from the existing literature. The authors begin by presenting and analyzing the widest range of new economic geography models to date. From there they proceed to examine previously unaddressed welfare and policy issues including, in separate sections, trade policy (unilateral, reciprocal, and preferential), tax policy (agglomeration with taxes and public goods, tax competition and agglomeration), and regional policy (infrastructure policies and the political economy of regional subsidies). A well-organized, engaging narrative that progresses smoothly from fundamentals to more complex material, Economic Geography and Public Policy is essential reading for graduate students, researchers, and policymakers seeking new approaches to spatial policy issues.

Author : Jaime Mart¡n Le¢n Li
Publisher : Diplomica Verlag
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3842869088

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This book presents a review of the South American integration process in a global context, with the main factors of success and failure, by comparing it with the European Union development. It also presents South American integration in a regional context; with its subregional pacts and the development of the South American Union of Nations (UNASUR) and how the regionalization faced its stagnation and changed its objectives, replicating and amplifying successful experiences in the integration process. The book presents comparisons between South American and EU integration structures and policies featuring the supranational executive bodies concerned, the judicial structures, the legislative functions and the monetary systems plus common foreign and security policy and common social and development policy of both entities: three supranational institutions and three common policies that define a regional bloc. To avoid diffusing the research, only one of those dimensions receives a deeper analysis: the supranational executive bodies comparison. The second part of this book introduces the Game Theory, a shared-decision model with two or more players that have different priorities for the same decision. The Game Theory analysis is used here to evaluate two typical scenarios of South American regional policy conflicts, pointing out the important role of the exertion of supranational executive power to foster the integration process. The conclusions focus on the main challenges: the existing asymmetries between South American states and the lack of a clear leadership in the region; giving a positive assessment to the new functional approach taken by South American nations. This approach could offer them good chances to foster regional development and allow progress of South American integration. The final comments propose new fields for the Game Theory technique in the integration process analysis.

Author : K. Kimbugwe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230369928

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Post-colonial Africa is littered with regional trade agreements that amounted to little more than a photo opportunity for the leaders that signed them. This book explores conventional explanations for past failures and posits a new theory rooted in the symbiotic relationship between authoritarian politics and crony-capitalism.