Asymmetries in Regional Integration and Local Development
Asymmetries in Regional Integration and Local Development

Author: Paolo Giordano

Publisher: IDB

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 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.

The Politics of Regional Integration in Latin America
The Politics of Regional Integration in Latin America

Author: O. Dabène

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-08-31

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0230100740

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This book explores the widely admitted failure of regional integration in this continent, linking the features of regional institutional arrangements with domestic politics and includes an inquiry into regionalism at the hemispherical level.

Asymmetric Economic Integration
Asymmetric Economic Integration

Author: Snorri Thomas Snorrason

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-07-09

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 3790828610

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This book investigates whether the effects of economic integration differ according to the size of countries. The analysis incorporates a classification of the size of countries, reflecting the key economic characteristics of economies in order to provide an appropriate benchmark for each size group in the empirical analysis of the effects of asymmetric economic integration. The formation or extension of Preferential Trade Areas (PTAs) leads to a reduction in trade costs. This poses a critical secondary question as to the extent to which trade costs differ according to the size of countries. The extent to which membership of PTAs has an asymmetric impact on trade flow according to the size of member countries is analyzed by employing econometric tools and general equilibrium analysis, estimating both the ex-post and ex-ante effects of economic integration on the size of countries, using a data set of 218 countries, 45 of which are European. ?

Asymmetric Trade Negotiations
Asymmetric Trade Negotiations

Author: Sanoussi Bilal

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1317177703

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The slow pace of the Doha Round has boosted the proliferation of regional and bilateral trade agreements. Paradoxically, the more powerful actors, the US and the European Union, who at the same time have benefited the most from the multilateral system, have also been engaged in bilateral and regional negotiations in order to sign WTO-plus agreements with developing countries. Combining a clear theoretical exposition with systematic cross-regional analysis, 'Asymmetric Trade Negotiations' offers a coherent picture of strategic, design and political economy aspects of North-South trade negotiation processes, from African, Asian and Latin American perspectives. Skilled area specialists gather to provide negotiators and policy makers in the South with recommendations, best practices, and benchmarks and contribute to the understanding of these recent processes.

Facing Asymmetry
Facing Asymmetry

Author: Kryštof Kozák

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9783631599716

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The book analyzes the concept of asymmetry in international relations on the example of United States and Mexico. This bilateral relation is introduced within wider historical, economic and political context. It also includes a case study on perceptions of Mexico in U.S. media. The study focuses on critical issues in bilateral relations within the context of asymmetric relations. Economic integration under North American Free Trade Agreement, extensive migration from Mexico to the U.S. and the issue of drug-trafficking and drug-control efforts are analyzed in this respect. The concluding chapter uses the findings to conceptualize asymmetric relations and presents possible applications of the key findings to complex bilateral issues.

The Politics of Central American Integration
The Politics of Central American Integration

Author: Rafael A. Sánchez Sánchez

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-12-20

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1135843457

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This book charts the key stages of Central American integration and demonstrates the advances and limitations of governments cooperating at a level of integration that goes beyond the confines of the nation-state.

Emerging Market Economies and European Economic Integration
Emerging Market Economies and European Economic Integration

Author: R. Scott Hacker

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781781959183

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'The daunting task of providing the "big picture" of the economic changes occurring today in Europe has been masterfully achieved by the editors R. Scott Hacker and his colleagues - Börje Johansson and Charlie Karlsson. The fact that they do this in conjunction with historical and statistical data, which adds to the overall economic backdrop of this climate, only adds to the impressiveness of this collection.' - Joan M. Jackson, Business Information Alert Providing a picture of the processes of economic change in Europe, of which EU harmonization policies and transition policies form an integral part, the editors present a collection of articles on current issues in central and east European countries.

Territoriality, Asymmetry, and Autonomy
Territoriality, Asymmetry, and Autonomy

Author: S. Henders

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0230105823

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Minority special status arrangements figure prominently in efforts to articulate universality with territorialized difference in many parts of the world. Yet much of what has been written about this important modality of the asymmetrical state has focused exclusively on the liberal democratic West. This book extends the analysis. It offers a structured-focused comparison of the experience of the People s Republic of China, France, and Spain. Case studies on central Tibet, Hong Kong, Corsica, and Catalonia are used to identify the conditions that affect the degree to which special status arrangements enhance stability while improving the citizenship of both minority territorial communities and their more vulnerable residents.

Requiem or Revival?
Requiem or Revival?

Author: Isabel Studer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2008-05-31

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0815782004

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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was launched amid great hopes and controversy in 1994. More than a dozen years later, progress toward economic integration has stalled. Mexico's economy remains far behind those of Canada and the United States, and such pressing issues as energy security remain unaddressed. In Requiem or Revival? scholars and policymakers from all three nations dissect NAFTA's failure to fulfill its early promise and evaluate the prospects for further integration. The authors explore the interaction between regionalism and multilateralism, the impact of the "new trade" agenda, and NAFTA's unresolved problems—migration, security, and energy. Recognizing the limits of the NAFTA framework, they examine its relationship to the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas negotiations and the Doha Development Round, and they discuss various ways in which NAFTA could be revamped or improved. The result is an intriguing volume offering important insights on the future of economic integration in North America and beyond. Contributors include Chantal Blouin (North-South Institute), Theodore H. Cohn (Simon Fraser University, emeritus), I. M. Destler (University of Maryland), Charles F. Doran (Johns Hopkins University–SAIS), Christina Gabriel (Carleton University), Sergio Gómez Lora (IQOM, Inteligencia Comercial), Jerry Haar (Florida International University), Laura Macdonald (Carleton University), Gordon Mace (Université Laval), Isidro Morales (University of the Americas), Glauco Oliveira (University of Southern California), Antonio Ortiz Mena (CIDE), Jeffrey J. Schott (Peterson Institute for International Economics),Anne Weston (North-South Institute),Tamara Woroby (Towson University, Johns Hopkins University––SAIS), and Jaime Zabludovsky (Soluciones Estratégicas).

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America

Author: Xóchitl Bada

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 905

ISBN-13: 0190926554

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The essays included in this volume provide both an assessment of key areas and current trends in sociology, specifically with regard to contemporary sociology in Latin America, as well as a collection of innovative empirical studies. The volume serves as an effective bridge of communication allowing sociological academies to mobilize and disseminate research dynamics from Latin America to the rest of the world.