The Building Blocks of Successful Regional Integration: Lessons for the CSME from other regional integration schemes. By Rachel Simms, LL.M, 2006 University of Toronto And Errol Simms, Senior Lecturer, Department of Management Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, U.W.I., St. Augustine. Regional Trading Blocs (RTBs) have become quite ubiquitous, with approximately 200 of them presently operating...

the objective of this paper is to explore the effect of financial crisis on trade flows of steel industries in the major asian-pacific steel producing countries. using a static and dynamic panel data analysis, we test the hypothesis that the global financial crisis has a negative effect on asia-pacific bilateral steel trade flows. we also examine the role of regional trade integration in bilate...

This paper demonstrates the utility of a sociology of regional integration by addressing two central questions that have sparked much debate over the welfare state. Is there evidence of long-anticipated retrenchment? Does globalization cause that retrenchment? I redirect these debates by showing that there is evidence of retrenchment in Europe, and that regional integration – not globalization ...

There is little disagreement among most economists that countries benefit from trade liberalization. Yet, whether unilateral, multilateral (through the World Trade Organization) or through regional integration agreements (RIAs), trade liberalization has been one of the most controversial economic issues of our time. It is the focus of everyone from politicians to union leaders and anti-globaliz...

" International integration is a process by which countries remove the barriers to free trade and the free movement of people across national borders, with the goal of reducing the tensions that can lead to international conflict " .

The paper focuses on regional trade agreements and economic co-operation and develops a new appropriate approach to study their impact on growth and trade. The approach is based on an endogenous trade-growth theory and novelly specified in an economic integration (expenditure) framework which is the conceptual foundation of regional trade agreements. Importantly, it also appropriately takes int...

The paper focuses on regional trade agreements and economic co-operation and develops a new appropriate approach to study their impact on growth and trade. The approach is based on an endogenous trade-growth theory and novelly specified in an economic integration (expenditure) framework which is the conceptual foundation of regional trade agreements. Importantly, it also appropriately takes int...

Utilizing the agglomeration growth theory in the regional economy development theory, this article observes and analyzes the general connotation, economic meaning, regional influence and local countermeasures for the regional economic integration in Shan’xi provincial Xi’an city and Xianyang city which are located in the western economic region of China from different views, and through the obs...

The empirical literature offers regional integration arrangements reduce trade costs among partner countries this reduction in cost not only increase trade but also act as a stimulus to increase FDI flow. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was established in 8 December 1985 with the seven South Asian countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri L...

This paper attempts to provide a critical approach to the issue of regional integration, one of the most important subjects over the last two decades and currently one of the leading debates that are taking place in the South. Although the importance of regional integration –given its correlation to the process of pacific change in international relations–, it seems that there is no satisfactor...