Governing Regional Integration for Development: Monitoring Experiences, Methods and Prospects / Edition 1

by Antoni Estevadeordal, Philippe De Lombaerde

Overview

Developing countries have joined the rapidly growing global system of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past years. The drive towards regional integration has advanced with the formation of new markets and groups in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Oceania with few developing countries remaining outside these regional schemes. This volume looks at how 'getting governance right' is a central element for successful RTA implementation, taking stock of the quality and effectiveness of the monitoring of development country RTAs around the world. Organized by the main world regions and primarily focusing on developing country RTAs, the book also includes two case studies focused on monitoring in developed country regional agreements by way of comparison. The contributors operationalize governance in the context of RTA implementation with a more narrow and technical term of 'monitoring' and provide eight important lessons for assessing monitoring around the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754672630
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/28/2008
Series:	New Regionalisms Series
Edition description:	1
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Philippe De Lombaerde is based at the United Nations University-Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Belgium, Antoni Estevadeordal is based at the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, USA, and Kati Suominen is based at The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington, USA.

Table of Contents

1: Governing Regional Integration for Development: Introduction; 1: Latin America and the Caribbean; 2: Monitoring Regional Integration and Cooperation in the Andean Region; 3: ‘Learning to Integrate': The Experience of Monitoring the CARICOM Single Market and Economy; 4: Monitoring Regional Integration: The Case of Central America; 5: Monitoring Regional Integration and Cooperation: The Case of Mercosur 1; 2: Asia and The Pacific; 6: Results-Based Monitoring of Regional Integration and Cooperation in Asean; 7: Regional Monitoring in the Pacific: The Pacific Islands Forum; 8: Monitoring Regional Integration and Cooperation in South Asia; 3: Africa and the Middle East; 9: Monitoring Regional Integration and Cooperation in the Gulf Region; 10: Monitoring Regional Integration and Cooperation in the South: The Arab Maghreb Union; 11: Monitoring Regional Integration in Eastern and Southern Africa; 4: Europe and North America; 12: Monitoring and (Good) Governance of the Integration Process in the European Union; 13: Seasoned Monitoring: The Case of North America; 14: Governing Regional Integration for Development: Summary and Conclusions

Editorial Reviews

'...a unique contribution to the literature on regional economic integration among developing countries. It looks behind the legal texts, communiqués and modelling results to provide a picture of how the machinery of integration is working in practice in developing country initiatives across the continents. The result is a most useful compendium of information that is normally difficult to access. Adding to the fascination of the volume is the opportunity it provides to make comparisons between the different groupings of the experiences, approaches and lessons from their regional economic integration efforts.' Robert Scollay, University of Auckland, New Zealand. 'Governing Regional Integration for Development: Monitoring Experience, Methods and Prospects is the premiere book to suggest that member-States of a regional integration bloc do not only commit to the economic programmes of the bloc but, in addition, adhere, collectively, to the sound political, economic and social governance. It does so by providing insights and "best practices" of regional groupings in the various regions around the world. It is a book accessible to all: the academician, the policymaker and the layperson. Contributes significantly to the discourse on regional integration in Africa and therefore strongly recommended.' Robert M. Okello, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Ethiopia

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