Download or read book Central America Integrat h written by Royce Q. Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study challenges several widely held assumptions about Central American economic integration, arguing that the key to understanding the failure of the integration program lies in neither advanced economic nor regional integration theory, but in the domestic politics of the states involved. Thus, the author contends that the Common Market was not the cause of the balance-of-payments and balanced-growth crises in Central America; rather, domestic political forces were the major factor in the collapse of the market and the subsequent attempts at restructuring. Professor Shaw disputes the standard interpretations of the role of the technocrats in the integration process and demonstrates that the domestic political elites played an important role throughout. He also challenges the assumption that economic integration is always a force for conciliation, pointing out that the Common Market aggravated some of the conflicts that led to war between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. Nor are integration programs among less developed countries necessarily instruments of political and social change, according to this analysis; on the contrary, political elites used the Common Market to bypass the internal economic reforms necessary for national development. This study incorporates new material—interview data and other primary source material—on events of the past eight years.
Download or read book Economic Integration in Central America Empirical Investigations written by Jeffrey B. Nugent and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on economic integration in Central America - covers alternative economic theories and methodologys for assessing trade and other effects of customs unions and the measurement of the effects of the Central American common market, and includes econometric models showing the potential income improvement of coordination of monetary policy and fiscal policy at the regional level, together with suggestions for further economic research. Bibliography pp. 193 to 203, references and statistical tables.
Download or read book Central America written by Roger D. Hansen and published by [Washington] : National Planning Association. This book was released on 1967 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the economic integration and economic development of the countries of Central America - covers characteristics of the economies, the SIECA, the response of various sectors (e.g. Private enterprise, foreign investment, etc.) to integration, the process of economic integration, rural development, agricultural policy, political stability, economic policy, trade, etc. References.
Download or read book The Economic Integration in Central America written by Hans C. Blomqvist and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Latin America and Economic Integration written by Walter Krause and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the economic integration process in Latin America within the framework of the LAIA and the SIECA, impact thereof on economic development and the proposal to establish a region-wide Latin American common market (lacm) - covers trade agreements the role of GATT and UNCTAD and includes excerpts from the declaration of the presidents of American states made at punta del este in april 1967. Bibliography pp. 99 to 105 and statistical tables.
Download or read book The Politics of Central American Integration written by Rafael A. Sánchez Sánchez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception in the 1960s to the regional negotiations in the 1990s and onwards, Central American integration has been a process characterized by both dramatic advances and setbacks. This book provides a theoretical explanation of this ebb and flow, examining different stages including the military conflicts of the 1980s, the subsequent Esquipulas peace process, and the relaunch of integration during the 1990s under the System of Central American Integration (SICA). Sánchez Sánchez's analysis focuses on the policies and preferences of the larger states of the region, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala, and argues that integration relies on intergovernmental bargaining. Interviews, historical and comparative data are presented in a format invaluable for students and teachers concerned with comparative regional integration, as well as for those seeking a greater understanding of contemporary Central American regional and international politics and development.
Download or read book Autonomy Or Dependence as Regional Integration Outcomes Central America written by Philippe C. Schmitter and published by Berkeley : Institute of International Studies, University of California. This book was released on 1972 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research paper on economic integration in Central America, examining the extent to which policy externalization has occurred in the central American common market (cacm) - covers the role of USA in central American integration, policy externalization through regional organizations, regional cooperation, efforts at regulating foreign capital and commodity markets, foreign policy and regional cohesion, etc. Bibliography pp. 81 to 87 and references.
Download or read book Central America Economic Integration and Cooperation Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information Organizations and Programs written by IBP, Inc and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA) Handbook
Download or read book Central America written by George Irvin and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1989-03-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History and Society in Central America written by Edelberto Torres Rivas and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Chile in 1969 as Interpretación del desarrollo social centroamericano, this classic is now available in English. The first attempt at an integrated analysis of modern Central America's socioeconomic structure, Torres Rivas's work traces the social development of Central America from independence (1871) up to the 1960s. Using a dependency framework, but not limited by it, Torres Rivas describes the various divisions of Central American society and their evolution within the liberal development model that has been so much a part of the past century of Central American economic history. The book is compelling in its explanation of the relationship between foreign and native elements in the social development of the region. Torres Rivas describes and analyzes the resulting long-term problems this development has posed for Central America. With a new chapter added for the English edition, History and Society in Central America remains vital for readers interested in the region.
Download or read book Economic Integration in Central America written by William R. Cline and published by Institution. This book was released on 1978 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Business Cycle Synchronization and Regional Integration written by Norbert Fiess and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: In early January 2003, the United States and Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua launched official negotiations for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), a treaty that would expand NAFTA-style trade barrier reductions to Central America. With deeper trade integration between Central America and the United States, it is expected that there will be closer links in business cycles between Central American countries and the United States. The paper finds a relatively low degree of business cycle synchronization within Central America as well as between Central America and the United States. The business cycle synchronization is expected to increase only modestly with further trade expansion, making the coordination of macroeconomic policies within CAFTA somewhat less of a priority.
Download or read book Economic Integration of Central America and the Role of the Alliance for Progress written by Permanent Secretariat of the General Treaty for Central American Economic Integration and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regional Industrial Development in Central America written by David E. Ramsett and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economic Integration of Central America written by Juan Alberto Fuentes and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Better Neighbors written by Chad P. Bown and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a renewal of 'Open Regionalism' in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) aimed at achieving the region's goals of high growth with stability. The LAC region experienced a growth spurt with equity during the first decade of the 21st Century. It is well understood that an unsustainable demand boom fueled by terms-of-trade improvements drove this growth acceleration episode, especially in South America. Unfortunately, terms of trade are no longer fueling growth, and the region’s policymakers are in search of new sources of growth with stability. With the experience of East Asia and the Pacific in mind, many policymakers in LAC are looking to international economic ties as a potential source of stable growth. The challenge highlighted in this book lies in designing an integration agenda comprising trade and factor market integration that is conducive to region-wide efficiency gains, which can help LAC enhance its global competitiveness. The forces of geography imply that pro-growth global integration cannot be achieved without building a strong neighborhood. Thus, this volume argues that LAC's regional economic integration agenda needs to go well beyond the current spaghetti bowl of preferential trading arrangements.
Download or read book Connecting the Dots written by Mauricio Mesquita Moreira and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can be said of Latin America and the Caribbean's experiment with regional integration? Did it live up to the expectations? What does this experience say about the regional integration agenda moving forward? Do the tectonic changes undergone by the world economy in the last quarter of a century matter for policy design? This report offers answers to these pressing questions. It argues that while the "new regionalism" was in general effective to promote international trade, it failed to boost the region's competitiveness abroad. Fragmentation is seen as the original sin, and convergence the path to redemption. The policy recommendations offer different routes to convergence, from a cautious, cumulation of rules or origin approach to a non-stop sprint to a LAC-FTA. But they all come with a warning: in the current challenging trade environment, the benefits of caution might be too little, too late.
