Popular Support for Regional Economic Integration in Latin America

1999 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
MITCHELL A. SELIGSON
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Regional Economic Integration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Popular Support ◽  
Integration Schemes ◽  
Education Support

Regional economic integration schemes abound in Latin America, yet very little is known about the degree of popular support for such programmes. Now that democratic regimes rule in almost all of Latin America, public opinion can have an important impact on national policies. This paper examines the attitudes toward economic integration in 17 mainland Latin American countries with interview data from over 18,000 people. Bi-variate and multivariate analyses are conducted on the factors related to support for regional integration. Perceived benefits of integration and perceptions of personal and national economic situation prove to be important factors, as are higher levels of education, support for democracy and gender (males favour integration more than females). Two novel findings are that a positive opinion of the European Union along with satisfaction with the functioning of democracy are both linked to greater support for integration.

scholarly journals Embedding trade liberalisation in social policy: a research agenda on social regionalism and the Global South

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-281
Author(s):  
Diamond Ashiagbor
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Regional Economic Integration ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Sub Saharan

Underpinning this article is the proposition that regional integration with a social dimension has the potential to engender a more equitable pattern of globalisation. The empirical focus of the article is on the extent to which the insights of ‘embedded liberalism’ associated with regional economic integration between the industrialised nations of the European Union (EU) can be applied to regional economic integration within sub-Saharan Africa. The article contends that EU market liberalisation has been embedded within labour market institutions and institutions of social citizenship at the domestic level. These have served as social stabilisers to counter the far-reaching effects of the internal market and global trade. Less industrialised nations have never enjoyed adjustment mechanisms of this sort, raising the question for this article, and for further research: in which legal and institutional structures can these nascent forms of market integration at regional and sub-regional level be embedded?

scholarly journals MACROECONOMIC STABILITY OF NEW MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: FIFTH ENLARGEMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (19) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Sanel Razić ◽  
Merim Kasumović
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
European Union ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Regional Economic Integration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
National Economies ◽  
Macroeconomic Stability

The historical context of globalization as an organized process, which influenced the majority of national economies linked via international institutional mediators, led to the so called regional economic integration phenomenon. It is interpreted as the efforts of underdeveloped and developing countries to speed up their economic growth and more significantly impact the entire macroeconomic stability by means of some form of regional integration. Nowadays, regional economic integration is one of the pillars for proper functioning of modern economic relations. Experience of developed countries serves as an example to point out that integration processes inevitably contribute to more favorable environment for developing business sector in the countries striving for integration. In the context of global integrations, more frequent forms of regional changes and the establishment of trade blocks come as the consequence as well as the overall need for obtaining trade balance among national economies. Within this context, the European Union is seen as one of the most important regional integration and an imperative in economic, political and cultural segment, as it is the territory with significant economic growth and the region with high living standards.

scholarly journals Energy diplomacy in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-85
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Suglobov ◽  
Oleg Karpovich
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Regional Economic Integration ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
World Energy ◽  
Main Instrument ◽  
Energy Diplomacy

This article discusses the main aspects and features of the modern world energy market in Latin America. Energy diplomacy is analyzed as the main instrument of regional integration. The activities Of the Commission for regional economic integration (CELAC) are studied through the prism of ensuring the interests of all the main participants in this integration Association.

scholarly journals SPACE ASYMMETRIES OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION

2017 ◽  
pp. 266-275
Author(s):  
Iryna Ivashchuk ◽  
Andriy Voytseshchuk ◽  
Vitaliy Zapukhlyak
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Regional Economic Integration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Global Space ◽  
National Economic ◽  
National Economic Policy

The objective preconditions of regionalization in the global space are considered in the article. The consequences and challenges of regional economic integration processes for the countries are revealed. The importance of coordinating the objectives of regional economic integration and national economic policy is substantiated. The role of integration in the liberalization of trade through the reduction of tariff barriers is argued. The regional asymmetries of global economic development are outlined. The state of development of regional trade agreements in the last decades is analysed. This analysis has made it possible to determine the difficulties of functioning of integration associations in modern conditions and to substantiate that each region has its own peculiarities, as shown by the example of the European Union, the member countries of NAFTA, integration in the countries of Latin America . The index of regional integration in Africa has been estimated. It allowed revealing significant differences among the groups of countries. The peculiarities of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the conditions of cooperation of the countries have been clarified.

scholarly journals Regional economic integration in Europe: Effects and open issues

2006 ◽  
Vol 58 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 84-103
Author(s):  
Pero Petrovic ◽  
Miroslav Antevski
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Regional Economic Integration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
National Productivity ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Open Issues

In analyzing regional economic integration in Europe the authors pay special attention to the development in the European Union, for other forms of regional or sub regional integration at the continent are in fact mostly transitional and provisional, and directly connected with EU. The authors argue that in spite of considerable success and high level of integration of the EU, several important open issues remain in that process. They are results of mixed character of European integration: political and economic. Too many kinds of interests are of opposed character, and it is very hard to harmonize them in real politics. The main problems in the EU have their cause in the nature of European integration: international competitiveness of European economy, social character of European states, national productivity, challenges of enlargement.

scholarly journals The Necessity of Regional Economic Integration: a Lesson for South Asia?

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Md. Rajin Makhdum Khan ◽  
Faizah Imam
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Regional Economic Integration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The South ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Domestic Economies

ASEAN and the European Union have showed this world the privileges regional economic integration provides the states. Although Greece and Italy might be the torchbearers of criticism against regional cooperation and integration, these two organizations tend to be some prime examples of necessity of regional economic integration. This dissertation thus focuses on the privileges and advantages that regional economic integration system and organizations deliver to the states aligned within. With the possible and crucial criticisms on mind, the discussion moves forward analyzing if this system is making the countries perform better economically and advance towards domestic development. The dissertation further intends to find out why the South Asian nations might need similar kind of cooperation and why these countries should act more sensible to make the economic integration possible. While remarking the recommendations, the discussion also draws the barriers and the problems that this region might face in order to integrate their economies or enhance their trades. The core argument of this dissertation therefore lies in analyzing the importance of regional economic integration and liberal economics in this modern world and if the South Asian countries need economic integration to develop their domestic economies. The recommendations are to provide the possible ways to run the process and the drawbacks portion mentions the difficulties and barriers to be faced whilst all of these countries’ ongoing strict policies. The argument tries to find out the significance of liberal economics and tribulation of realism in the contemporary world.

Investigating the Role of Regional Economic Integration on Growth: Fresh Insights from South Asia

2020 ◽  
pp. 097491012097480
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ibrahim Shah
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Regional Economic Integration ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Regional Economic

Regional economic integration is the key to achieving prosperity and stability. However, intra-regional trade in South Asia accounts for not more than 5%–6% of their total trade. This study aims to examine the role played by regional economic integration in determining the economic growth of South Asian countries over the period 1980–2015. Since shocks in one country may affect another country in the region, this is taken into account in the article by employing methodologies that are robust to cross sectional dependence. Specifically, continuously-updated and bias-corrected (CupBC) of Bai et al. (2009) and Dumitrescu–Hurlin panel causality test (2012) have been employed to estimate long-run coefficients and determine the direction of relationship among the variables, respectively. The findings suggest that economic integration increases economic growth significantly in this region. However, contrary to popular belief, both democracy and human capital are negatively related to economic growth. Bidirectional causality is found between economic integration and democracy, regional integration and human capital, democracy and human capital and, democracy and labor. This study also presents several policy implications for South Asian countries.

scholarly journals The Challenge of Regional Economic Integration in Africa: Theory and Reality

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peace A. Jiboku
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Regional Economic Integration ◽  
Least Developed Countries ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Integration Schemes ◽  
The World

Africa has a high concentration of sub-regional economic organisations, multilateral arrangements and institutions promoting the goals of integration. Yet, the continent has remained the least integrated of the world’s major regions. Africa has remained slow in its development trajectory and harbours most of the least developed countries of the world. A large percentage of the African populace is mired in poverty while the sub-continent continues to be marginalised in global affairs. The obvious reality is that Africa is yet to benefit fully from the gains of regional economic integration and that the economic transformation of the African continent as a whole – one of the main objectives often declared in establishing regional economic integration schemes – is yet to be realised. There is, in Africa, a seemingly wide gap between the theoretical aspirations towards regional economic integration and the empirical evidence and practical reality of actual integration. Regionalism in Africa raises several issues of contradictions and debate in the world <br />of theory. This paper examines regional economic integration challenge in Africa locating key issues within theory and practice.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT TRENDS OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION: METHODOLOGICAL ASPECT

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-98
Author(s):  
Mariia LYZUN
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Methodological Aspect ◽  
Regional Economic Integration ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
Development Trends ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Hub And Spoke ◽  
Factors Influencing

The article investigates the transformation of approaches to understanding the processes of regional economic integration. The macro-region as a structural element of regionalism is explored. Criteria for typology of regional economic integration are systematized and divided into dichotomous and trichotomous. Factors influencing regional integration and current tendencies of its development are determined. A modern group of regional integration associations is identified, thus improving the existent typology. It includes regional and multilateral associations, hub and spoke regionalism, gravity agreements, plurilateral, bilateral, minilateral regionalism. JEL: F15, F13, F60, R10.

scholarly journals Latin American public opinion vis-à-vis regional integration (1995-2018)

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (199) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
María Victoria Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
National Level ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Economy ◽  
The Eu

Literature on opposition to regional integration has concentrated on the European Union (EU). So far, very few systematic attempts have been pursued to explain opposition to regional integration in Latin America or to identify its main influential factors. Based on Latinobarometer surveys, two main findings emerge from this paper. First, it confirms that opposition to regional integration is not a generalised attitude among Latin Americans. Secondly, the way in which citizens across Latin America evaluate regional integration is strongly influenced by the same predictors as in the EU. Together, citizens’ assessments of economic performance (both at the individual and national level) enjoy a preponderance to account for their position regarding regionalism. Others variables, i.e. age, ideological position, and level of education have a more limited explanatory value while occupation is not significant. Thus, economic variables such as citizens’ perceptions of their national and individual economy have proven to be directly linked to support for/opposition to economic integration.

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