MERCOSUR Report number 13 : 2007, second semester - 2008, first semester (Subregional Integration Report Series MERCOSUR = Informes Subregionales de Integración MERCOSUR = Série Informes Subregionais de Integraçao MERCOSUL; 13) PDF Download

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Publisher: BID-INTAL
ISBN: 9507382828
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Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Publisher: BID-INTAL
ISBN: 9507382550
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Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Author: M. van der Velde
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Azita Amjadi
Publisher: World Bank Publications
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Category : Comercio internacional
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Author: P. Coffey
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401148708
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Latin America's experience with regional economic integration has been only slightly shorter than that of Europe. In fact, the first attempt at integration started as early as 1960, with the creation of LAFTA - the Latin American Free Trade Area (subsequently replaced by LAIA - the Latin American Integration Association). LAFTA, composed of 11 countries, sought, unsuccessfully, to create a free trade area in 12 years. In 1969, the Andean pact, which sought, also unsuccessfully, to create a sub-regional free trade area, was set up. Recently the Presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay signed the Treaty of Asuncion aimed at creating a common market as from 1st January, 1995. This common market, MERCOSUR, will be completed by 2006. In comparison with the earlier and unsuccessful attempts at integration, and despite challenges and problems, both internal and external, MERCOSUR is working, and trade between the member States is increasing. Furthermore, as with the case of the European Union (EU), serious attempts (notably between Argentina and Brazil) are being made to co-ordinate economic and monetary policies. The most important evidence of these moves is the introduction of hard currencies, the reduction in the size of the public sector and the privatization of State assets. These are clearly exciting times for Latin American integration. In this book, the first in a new series of books on International Economic Integration, the authors examine the experience of MERCOSUR in the Latin American integration progress. After an analysis of the history of the moves towards integration in South America, the case of each Member State and the Associate Country is examined and perspectives for the future are assessed.

Author: Mikhail Mukhametdinov
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319768255
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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The book draws comparison between MERCOSUR and the European Union to explain variation of regionalism and to expose its limits. The project is based on the idea that contemporary examples of regionalism should be evaluated against several propositions of multiple integration theories rather than against a single theory. In order to systematically explain why and how integration outcomes in MERCOSUR differ from those in the EU, the author develops an analytical framework for the comparison of the two blocs. MERCOSUR is compared with the EU by the use of the various criteria of economic interdependence, economic convergence, intra-bloc size and interest asymmetries, cultural diversity and geostrategic motivations, which are identified as the salient parameters of integration theories.

Author: Inter-American Development Bank
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ISBN: 9781597820721
Category : Desenvolvimento econômico
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: Riordan Roett
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ISBN: 9781685851859
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This timely volume describes the origins of Mercosur, South America's dynamic and successful regional integration project, as well as the issues still to be tackled regarding the trade bloc's expansion, the challenges to its transition from a customs union to the "Common Market of the South," and its relations with other trade groups and countries (particularly the European Union and the United States).

Author: L. Alan Winters
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Languages : en
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March 1997 Geographic proximity and lower transportation costs are probably not enough for Mercosur to reap big rewards as a natural trading bloc. Amjadi and Winters explore the argument that trade between the Mercosur countries should be stimulated by preferential policies because of their geographic proximity. That is, that the Mercosur countries are candidates for natural integration. They find that, on average, transportation margins on trade within Mercosur and between Mercosur and Chile are about 6 percentage points lower than on trade with the rest of the world. That is a significant margin, and one that was reflected in the countries' trade patterns even before regional trade agreements reduced the policy-based barriers to mutual trade. But it is probably not large enough, in and of itself (without other benefits), to make the introduction of trade preferences desirable. Amjadi and Winters also explore the argument that absolutely high transportation costs between Mercosur and the rest of the world (that is, not relative to intra-Mercosur costs) justify regional trade preferences. For this to apply the introduction of trade preferences must cause the Mercosur countries to cease importing some goods from the rest of the world completely. While Mercosur-rest-of-the-world transport costs certainly are high, trade patterns suggest that very few goods will cease to be imported from the rest of the world. Finally, Amjadi and Winters find that transport margins on imports are, on average, 2 to 4 percentage points higher for Mercosur countries than for the United States. Further research on why this is so is necessary before one can conclude that avoidable inefficiencies are involved. This paper - a product of the International Trade Division, International Economics Department - is part of a larger effort by the department and the Latin America and the Caribbean Region to identify ways to make the most of Mercosur.