Trade And Integration In The Caribbean

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821380192

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Accelerating Trade and Integration in the Caribbean by World Bank Pdf

The main objective of this report is to help policymakers in the Caribbean design an agenda of policy actions to accelerate trade integration and growth and reduce poverty. The report is a joint response from the World Bank and the Organization of American States (OAS) to a demand statement from the member states of CARICOM, formulated by the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery and the CARICOM Secretariat, to strengthen the analytical underpinnings of the linkages between trade, economic growth, and poverty. It aims at centering the Caribbean's next round of trade reforms and its overall agenda around trade on these key thematic areas. The report provides an overview of the economic and trade system context of the Caribbean, under which the new trade environment is operating. It then discusses the opportunities and challenges for the Caribbean associated with the new trade environment. It finally quantifies the gains from global trade integration using a dynamic macroeconomic analysis. The report provides policy priorities to accelerating Caribbean integration into the world economy and to reap the benefits of global competition. Each part of the report focuses on a key question and adds value by providing an in-depth analysis of the issues raised and laying the foundations for policy recommendations described in the last chapter of the report: * Part I (Overview of economic and trade system context): is Caribbean's economic and trade system sound enough to sustain the new era of its global trade relations which is being shaped? * Part II (Focuses on the analysis of the new opportunities and challenges of the new trade environment): what are the opportunities and challenges that the new trade environment offers to the Caribbean? * Part III (Presents an assessment of the impact of the EPA on growth and poverty using two types of macroeconomic models): what are the gains in terms of growth and poverty reduction of the recently negotiated EPA?

Author : Mr.Chandima Mendis,Mr.Philippe Egoume Bossogo
Publisher : INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451856830

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Trade and Integration in the Caribbean by Mr.Chandima Mendis,Mr.Philippe Egoume Bossogo Pdf

This paper analyzes trade in the Caribbean community (CARICOM) using a gravity model framework. The paper seeks to shed light on the dynamics of trade among CARICOM member countries, as well with the rest of world over 1980–99. Overall, the results show that intra-CARICOM trade has increased, suggesting that further regional integration is desirable. At the same time, CARICOM’s trade with the rest of the world has risen as well, fueled notably by the reduction of the arrangement’s common external tariff and despite the negative impact of the declining preferential access to EU markets for banana. In contrast, WTO membership does not appear to have had a positive impact on trade. Overall, it appears that trade liberalization is consistent with greater CARICOM trade integration.

Author : Anneke Jessen
Publisher : BID-INTAL
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9789507380808

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The Caribbean Community by Anneke Jessen Pdf

Author : Abdullah Al-Hassan,Mary E. Burfisher,Mr.Julian T Chow,Ding Ding,Fabio Di Vittorio,Dmitriy Kovtun,Arnold McIntyre,Ms.Inci Ötker,Marika Santoro,Lulu Shui,Karim Youssef
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513525860

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Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of its Parts? Strengthening Caribbean Regional Integration by Abdullah Al-Hassan,Mary E. Burfisher,Mr.Julian T Chow,Ding Ding,Fabio Di Vittorio,Dmitriy Kovtun,Arnold McIntyre,Ms.Inci Ötker,Marika Santoro,Lulu Shui,Karim Youssef Pdf

Deeper economic integration within the Caribbean has been a regional policy priority since the establishment of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the decision to create the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME). Implementation of integration initiatives has, however, been slow, despite the stated commitment of political leaders. The “implementation deficit” has led to skepticism about completing the CSME and controversy regarding its benefits. This paper analyzes how Caribbean integration has evolved, discusses the obstacles to progress, and explores the potential benefits from greater integration. It argues that further economic integration through liberalization of trade and labor mobility can generate significant macroeconomic benefits, but slow progress in completing the institutional arrangements has hindered implementation of the essential components of the CSME and progress in economic integration. Advancing institutional integration through harmonization and rationalization of key institutions and processes can reduce the fixed costs of institutions, providing the needed scale and boost to regional integration. Greater cooperation in several functional policy areas where the region is facing common challenges can also provide low-hanging fruit, creating momentum toward full integration as the Community continues to address the obstacles to full economic integration.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475586015

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Cluster Report by International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept. Pdf

This cluster report takes stock of and explores opportunities for trade integration in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Drawing on a set of 12 analytical studies that will be issued as working papers, the report examines the determinants of trade, explores the potential to enhance LAC’s trade integration, and assesses the associated economic and social effects. To deepen understanding of the region’s policy options and trade strategies, the report also incorporates the views of LAC country authorities based on responses to a survey. This provides an opportunity to examine the alignment of recommendations based on the analytical findings with the region’s current trade policy priorities, with the caveat that the survey was conducted between late 2015 and mid-2016, prior to the most recent developments in the global trade landscape.

Author : Mr.Sanjaya P Panth,Mr.Paul Cashin,Mr.W. A Bauer
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781589067936

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The Caribbean by Mr.Sanjaya P Panth,Mr.Paul Cashin,Mr.W. A Bauer Pdf

The Caribbean has made substantial progress in recent years in implementing economic reforms, both at the national and regional level. The Caribbean: Enhancing Economic Integration examines the product of the efforts made by Caribbean policymakers to strengthen regional cooperation and integration, which has yielded economic transformation and tighter integration with the global economy. This volume discusses regional financial integration as a means of deepening financial systems and raising regional growth; the relationship between tax incentives and investment, where harmonized regional action is important in seeking to overcome collective actions problems; and the consequences for the Caribbean of the erosion of trade preferences in key export markets. The book is based on empirical research carried out as part of the IMF's regional surveillance work in the Caribbean.

Author : Mauricio Mesquita Moreira,Ernesto H. Stein,Kun Li,Federico Merchán,Christian Volpe Martincus,Juan S. Blyde,Danielle Trachtenberg,Jorge Cornick,Jeffry Frieden,Marisol Rodríguez Chatruc,Rzavan Vlaicu,Víctor Zuluaga,Tomás Bril-Mascarenhas,Sergio Ardila,Piero Ghezzi,Thomas Reardon
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781597823654

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Trading Promises for Results by Mauricio Mesquita Moreira,Ernesto H. Stein,Kun Li,Federico Merchán,Christian Volpe Martincus,Juan S. Blyde,Danielle Trachtenberg,Jorge Cornick,Jeffry Frieden,Marisol Rodríguez Chatruc,Rzavan Vlaicu,Víctor Zuluaga,Tomás Bril-Mascarenhas,Sergio Ardila,Piero Ghezzi,Thomas Reardon Pdf

Thirty years after the region embarked on large-scale liberalization, trade policy could have been expected to become all but irrelevant. Instead, a mismatch between expectations and what could realistically be delivered set the stage for much of the disappointment, skepticism, and fatigue regarding trade policy in the region, particularly in the early 2000s. By setting the bar unrealistically high, governments and analysts made trade policies an easy target for special interests that were hurt by liberalization and for those ideologically opposed to free trade. The most immediate victims were the more tangible growth and welfare gains, whose relevance was lost amid the noise of grandiose visions.

Author : Roger Hosein,Jeetendra Khadan,Ranita Seecharan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9766405573

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Caribbean Trade and Integration by Roger Hosein,Jeetendra Khadan,Ranita Seecharan Pdf

Regional integration has emerged as perhaps the most controversial issue within the Caribbean. While some progress in implementing economic reforms, both at the national and regional level are observable, the efforts made by Caribbean policymakers to strengthen regional cooperation and integration have not yielded the envisioned level of economic transformation. Caribbean Trade and Integration distinguishes itself by combining history with sound economic and policy analysis. Moreover, this book reviews a survey of several key historical studies that have identified the urgent need for a change in policy action among Caribbean Community member states over time and that have outlined many pointed policy suggestions to effect the same. The book culminates by addressing the need to unpause the Caribbean Single Market and Economy and proposes a number of initiatives to generate this outcome. While this book is written to appeal to an academic audience, it also provides essential reading for policy practitioners, stakeholder groups, the CARICOM Secretariat and those interested in the dynamics of Caribbean regional integration.

Author : Anneke Jessen,Andrew Katona
Publisher : BID-INTAL
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9789507381126

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Breaking from Isolation by Anneke Jessen,Andrew Katona Pdf

Author : María Belén Olmos Giupponi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509904525

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Rethinking Free Trade, Economic Integration and Human Rights in the Americas by María Belén Olmos Giupponi Pdf

This monograph offers the first systematic overview of the protection of human rights in trade agreements in the Americas. Traditionally, trade agreements in the Americas were concerned with economic questions and paid little attention to human rights. However, in the wake of the 'new regionalism', which emerged at the end of the last century, more clauses addressing social issues such as labour rights and environmental standards were inserted in trade agreements. As economic integration increased, a framework for the protection of human rights evolved. This book argues that this framework allows for human rights protection on a transnational level, while constructing regional identities. Looking at the four key regional integration processes, namely the Caribbean Community, the Central American Integration System, the Andean Community of Nations and the Southern Common Market, and also at the North American Free Trade Agreement, it shows how the integration process has reached a considerable degree of consolidation. Writing on key sources in English for the first time, this book will be essential reading for all free trade and human rights scholars.

Author : Fuat Andic,Suphan Andic,Douglas Dosser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136878572

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A Theory of Economic Integration for Developing Countries by Fuat Andic,Suphan Andic,Douglas Dosser Pdf

First published in 1971, this is a study of the application of the economic theory of integration in developing countries attempts to assess the development of common markets and free trade areas in the contemporary developing world. The book synthesises various revisions of the old theory of the customs union, tackling the process of elaborating an appropriate theory for developing countries. The reissue will be of interest to those concerned with International Trade and Development Economics, as well as those interested in the development of the Caribbean region.

Author : Thomas Andrew O'Keefe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004164888

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Latin American and Caribbean Trade Agreements by Thomas Andrew O'Keefe Pdf

Latin American and Caribbean Trade Agreements: Keys to a Prosperous Community of the Americas is the essential reference guide for companies trading with Latin America and the Caribbean or wishing to use a country in the region as an export platform. This work fills the void in academic texts that are used to teach courses on economic integration in the Western Hemisphere. It provides a road map for the Obama Administration to launch an ambitious project designed to encourage economic growth, promote energy security, and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions, while at the same time realistically meeting the development needs of Latin America and the Caribbean. Latin American and Caribbean Trade Agreements: Keys to a Prosperous Community of the Americas posits that the myopic focus of past United States administrations on free markets to spur economic development in the Western Hemisphere is not enough. A bolder and more ambitious project that also seeks to redress many of the deep-seated problems that have long plagued the region is required. The Community of the Americas proposed in this book rests upon the important work that has already been done at the sub-regional level in terms of economic and political reform, identifying infrastructure and human capital needs, and regulating migration. It provides a new and cohesive vision for U.S. policy in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Author : Kenneth Hall
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466910751

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Regional Integration: Key to Caribbean Survival and Prosperity by Kenneth Hall Pdf

This publication contains a number of papers on issues which are key to Caribbean survival and prosperity. They critically review the challenges facing Member States of CARICOM. Written by a number of outstanding authors of recognized academic pedigree, these analyses look at the Region across a spectrum of issues: political, economic, social and environmental, among others. Attention is focused on efforts at regional integration as well as on the options to be pursued be CARICOM if it is to survive in the new political, economic and social dispensation. The book is replete with insightful; presentations on the evolution of the Community at this point in its history.

Author : V. Bulmer-Thomas
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822031579535

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Regional Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean by V. Bulmer-Thomas Pdf

This collection is a sober assessment of the state of regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean. It studies the question from four perspectives: economic, institutional, political, and in relation to the rest of the world. It considers the questions raised by LAC countries' efforts to use 'new' regionalism to address the challenges of globalization and to explore the nature and meaning of open regionalism. This thematic treatment draws on the experience of the different schemes currently in place in the region: NAFTA, CACM, CARICOM, the Andean Community and MERCOSUR. It also examines the nature of globalization, including concerns over the relationship between regionalism and the multilateral system. There is now a broad consensus among LAC countries that regional integration can help them adjust to the new world order, but there is much less agreement on how to achieve it and what reforms are needed to bring it about.

Author : W. Andrew Axline
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035557573

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Caribbean Integration by W. Andrew Axline Pdf