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Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"Regional integration"”.
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Southeast Asia and theories of regional integration
… , simultaneous processes of cooperation and integration at various levels have taken place. It is in this context sufficient to mention developments in Western Europe, Latin America, and East Africa. As a result of a combination of factors such as traditional rivalries , internal in stability …
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Southeast Asia and theories of regional integration
… , simultaneous processes of cooperation and integration at various levels have taken place. It is in this context sufficient to mention developments in Western Europe, Latin America, and East Africa. As a result of a combination of factors such as traditional rivalries , internal in stability …
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African regional integration track: challenges and prospects
… has been very slow in effectively implementing regional integration and trade agreements and has made little progress to achieve its stated objectives, especially the goal of eradicating poverty and promoting development. In addition, the economic integration model currently being pursued in …
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Navigating compliance challenges in African regional integration
Regional integration has been pursued on the African continent for decades, with the goal of developing and uniting the continent. The determination of African leaders to implement a system of integration is evidenced by the establishment of multiple regional economic communities across the …
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Regional integration in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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Foreign Direct Investment, Regional Integration Agreements and Economic Growth.
… believed to strongly influence economic growth: regional integration agreements (RIAs), foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade. We employ the well-known gravity model as the empirical framework in which to analyse the interplay between these three factors. We also conduct a case study analysis …
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Food security and regional integration in the SADC region
This thesis focuses on food security, policy and trade in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Food security is rigorously defined, and its ideological foundations are examined. Because food security is so intricately linked to poverty and rural development, a discussion of the …
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Regional integration in SADC: the role of BRICS countries
… bilateral BRICS-SADC trade connections on SADC's regional economic integration. The issues that were explored included among others whether or not the SADC countries' trade relations with BRICS countries contribute to SADC's goal of promoting deeper regional economic integration. The impact of the …
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Regional integration in West Africa : the attitude of ECOWAS leaders
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Regional integration in West Africa : the attitude of ECOWAS leaders
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Regional integration and warlord politics : the case of West Africa
… thesis is a critique of the main explanations of regional integration in West Africa. In critiquing West African regional integration, this research introduces and integrates the growing literature on the concept of warlords with theory of regional integration. The main explanations of West …
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Successful Regional Integration in the European Union through Vision and Planning
… the European Union, as well as the long-standing regional cooperation. Widespread inconsistencies in national policies across member states, especially with regards to economic culture and fiscal policy, have presented the EU with an existential crisis. My hypothesis is that successful regional …
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Effects of the Economic Partnership Agreements on Regional Integration in Africa
… African states embraced the idea of regional integration as an approach to boost economic development on the continent. This was evident in the new regional organizations that were predominantly generated among developing states in the southern hemisphere. Majority of these …
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Regional integration in the developing world : ASEAN in a new perspective
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1982.
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Three Essays on Agricultural and Food Trade Shocks and Regional Integration
… investigates the impact of disruptions and regional integration on agricultural and food trade, relying on a unique international and intranational (domestic) agri-food trade dataset and structural gravity. In the first chapter, we investigate the impact of animal diseases on trade of …
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Au Norm Import in the European Promotion of Regional Integration in Africa
… Union (EU) is the most institutionalised interregional relationship in the world. The EU, being a crucial external agent in African regional integration, exports open regionalism as a political norm through different mechanisms to the AU. Based on a qualitative research design with a …
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For better or for worse: the impact of EPAs on Africa's regional integration
Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in Africa are often plagued with disorientation and sub-par trade relations. It is well-established that extra-continental trade partnerships between Africa and the West have resulted in the delaying of industrialisation and the subsequent growth in …
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Regional Integration in Africa: Theories, Concepts, and Lessons for Successful Policy Creation and Implementation
… the past, present, and future of Africa's regional integration trajectory. It examines both the “old” and “new theories” of regional integration and compares and different viewpoints in existing literature to illuminate different schools of thought on regional integration with an …
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Compliance with regional courts judgments in SADC in the context of regional integration in Africa
Existing research on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal focuses mainly on how it has interpreted its human rights jurisdiction. Extant research on the SADC occasionally notes that Zimbabwe has not complied with all the SADC Tribunal judgments issued against it, but without …
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