Search Results - subject:"REGIONAL integration"

Schiff, Maurice; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

Security threats have moved neighbouring countries to form regional integration arrangements (RIAs), including the …

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Regional Integration and Cooperation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Are Formal Trade Agreements the Right Strategy?

Radelet, S. - Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), … - 1997

This paper examines the potential for success for trade-focused regional integration agreements in sub-Saharan Africa …, with a particular focus on southern Africa. The paper surveys the eexisting literature on regional integration, and …

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Regional Integration and Trade Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ademola Oyejide, T. - African Economic Research Consortium - 1997

This report describes the collaborative research project on Regional Integration and Trade Liberalization in sub …

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Customs and Trade Facilitation: Challenges and Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Glenday, G. - Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), … - 1997

This paper describes the changing economic environments being experienced by Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries as they move from relatively controlled and closed economies, to more open and liberalized economies with wider regional trade arrangements, deepening trade cooperation, and expanding...

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Globalization and regional integration

SIDERI, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1996

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Growth Effects of European Integration

Henrekson, Magnus; Torstensson, Rasha - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

the set of control variables and to measurement errors. Nonetheless, the results suggest that regional integration may not … regional integration. …

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Regionalism and the Rest of the World: The Irrelevance of the Kemp-Wan Theorem

Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Many commentators purport to use the Kemp-Wan Theorem to discuss the effects of regional integration schemes on non …

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Deepening of Regional Integration and Multilateral Trade Agreements

Bond, Eric W; Syropoulos, Costas; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

We consider a simple three-country, multi-commodity trade model in which two custom union members that have successfully coordinated their external tariff policies are in the process of deepening the integration of their internal markets through the removal of tariffs on intra-union trade. Union...

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Regionalism versus Multilateralism

Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper examines the theoretical arguments and historical evidence about whether regionalism undermines the multilateral trading system. It first considers how to define multilateralism and then surveys over 60 recent contributions to the literature. It classifies theoretical models by four...

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Regional Integration, Scale Economies and Industry Location in the European Union

Brülhart, Marius - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper analyses the effects of regional integration on the location of increasing-returns industry and the … resulting pattern of trade. Theoretically, it is shown that regional integration may initially lead to a dispersion of industry … member country will again increase. This non-monotonic relationship with regional integration also applies to equilibrium …

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