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| Author: | Winters, L. A. |
| Title: | What Can European Experience Teach Developing Countries About Integration? |
| Journal: | World Economy
1997 : NOV, Vol. 20:7, p. 889-912 |
| Index terms: | EUROPEAN INTEGRATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The world's fascination with regional integration schemes is as strong among developing countries as anywhere, and as they try to work out what integration could do for them and how to manage it, it is natural for them to look for guidance from Europe, which has undergone the deepest integration, outside nation building, ever experienced. Integration, however, is an extremely complex process both economically and politically, and the longer it has gone on, the harder it becomes to isolate its effects or its critical components. This is because as time proceeds, it becomes more and more difficult to work out what would have happened in the absence of integration. Such an excuse does not absolve us from trying, for it is surely a very important issue, but it must condition our expectations about the definitiveness of any conclusion we draw. |
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