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| | Evatt Foundation: Publication: A completely misleading description - 12 June 2004 |
 | | Issues relating to economic integration should be dealt with in a multilateral context and in a manner that does not prejudice the democratic rights of Australians to control their own social and economic institutions. | | | Ultimately, integration is likely to extend the provision and financing of health care and education. | | | A survey of previous integration agreements reveals two basic points that are applicable to the proposed economic integration agreement. |
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http://evatt.org.au/publications/papers/128.html
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| | Economic integration or separation |
| | But while intensive economic integration between the two economies can be useful for both sides, the exaggeration of the joint relationship towards complete integration, a custom union and one pricing system unfairly benefits Israel and maintains the feeling of exploitation among Palestinians. | | | Another example of the economic advantages of occupation is the convenience of the Palestinian population as a captive market for Israeli products--to the extent that it remains Israel’s second largest market. | | | This allows the free movement of goods between the two parties, unhindered by any economic control or barrier, but also requires imports from the rest of the world to be taxed at the same rates in both. |
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http://www.bitterlemons.org/previous/bl130103ed2.html
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| | Globalisation and Arab economic integration |
| | According to the Islamic economic philosophy, these quantities are to be studied about at a theoretical and a policy level in an integrated way involving ethical and moral issues in economic problems. | | | Such integration expected to improve the terms of trade with the rest of the world and create a better global economic and political balance. | | | Frequently this is also called 'total' economic integration in distinction of some other international arrangements involving closer economic cooperation or some degree of integration such as free trade areas, customs unions, and common markets. |
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http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/pao/zineldin.html
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| | MSN Encarta - European Union |
| | Formed in 1948, the union grew from the recognition that the economies of the separate states were individually too small to be competitive in the global market. | | | Because countries were hesitant to surrender any control over national affairs, most of the practical proposals for supranational organizations assumed that economic integration would precede political unification. | | | Another major goal of the EU has been to implement Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), which introduced a single currency, the euro, for EU members. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761579567/European_Union.html
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| | Globalization of the Economy - Globalization - Global Policy Forum |
| | The World Bank's mission is to erradicate poverty by loaning poor countries money for economic development, but these loans often come with demands of economic liberalization. | | | Transnational corporations have become some of the largest economic entities in the world, surpassing many states. | | | They use international financial institutions and regional trade agreements to compel poor countries to "integrate" by reducing tariffs, privatizing state enterprises, and relaxing environmental and labor standards. |
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http://globalpolicy.igc.org/globaliz/econ
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| | Economic Integration: Overview |
| | An economic union typically will maintain free trade in goods and services, set common external tariffs among members, allow the free mobility of capital and labor, and will also relegate some fiscal spending responsibilities to a supra-national agency. | | | Any type of arrangement in which countries agree to coordinate their trade, fiscal, and/or monetary policies is referred to as economic integration. | | | If free trade is economically the most efficient policy, it would seem to follow that any movement towards free trade should be beneficial in terms of economic efficiency. |
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http://internationalecon.com/v1.0/ch110/110c020.html
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| | FRB: Speech, Greenspan -- Global economic integration: Opportunities and challenges --August 25, 2000 |
| | It is by no means self-evident, however, that these trends will eventually lead to world convergence of economic regimes and to agreement about the conceptual framework that such a convergence would likely require. | | | How the convergence of economic systems toward the most market-oriented capitalist structures will fare if world long-term economic growth trends revert to historic norms is an intriguing question. | | | At the macroeconomic level, an exploitable tradeoff between unemployment and inflation was widely believed to exist, and a little inflation was perceived as useful to prime the pump of prosperity. |
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http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2000/20000825.htm
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| | Advantages Of Economic Integration - |
| | The second level of economic integration is a Customs Union... | | | One early criticism of economic integration came from the United... | | | considered as one of the main advantages of economic integration and, specifically, of monetary unions... |
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http://integration.fabug.com/index.php?k=advantages-of-economic-integration
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| | Factors Driving Global Economic Integration -- by Michael Mussa, Economic Counselor and Director of Research, IMF |
| | Economic considerations, including the cost of transportation mainly explain why immigration was particularly high during this period, with fluctuations in annual immigration flows reflecting (with a short lag) business cycle conditions in the United States. | | | Most notably and as a clear example of the influence of public policy on economic integration, the advent of EMU (and the anticipation of this event) has eliminated exchange rate fluctuations among the eleven participating countries and has led to a dramatic reduction in interest rate spreads and in the volatility of these spreads. | | | And, the effects are seen, for example, in the efforts to integrate the activities of stock and commodity markets internationally and in the international diversification of a number of leading firms providing financial services. |
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http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2000/082500.htm
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| | European Economic Integration: A Conflict of Visions - Southwest Economy, July/Aug 2005 - FRB Dallas |
| | So it is not economic integration per se that is being debated, because a uniformly low-tax Europe with flexible labor markets would be just as integrated as a Europe that embraces uniformly high tax rates and inflexible labor markets. | | | If the 25 members of the EU were to agree to integrate along French or German norms, the fact that the federation had achieved further economic integration would not save its economy from sliding into the night. | | | The various organizations that evaluate the extent to which countries are economically free uniformly conclude that the United States is freer than all or most European nations. |
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http://www.dallasfed.org/research/swe/2005/swe0504b.html
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| | Economic Integration |
| | An integrated ASEAN economy would be a potent attraction for in-vestors outside the region-who generally prefer large, integrated and efficient markets to small, fragmented and inefficient ones. | | | At their Summit Meeting in Ha Noi in December 1998, the ASEAN heads of state and of government issued a “Statement of Bold Meas-ures”-bold in that these measures met head-on the crisis that was still raging. | | | The Framework Agreement on the ASEAN Investment Area was signed in October 1998 at the 30th ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting in Manila. |
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http://www.aseansec.org/10372.htm
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| | Impediments to Economic Integration in Africa: The Case of COMESA |
| | This negative effect of integration occurs when the institution of a common external tariff on nonmember countries renders their imports uncompetitive (from a market price perspective) with duty-free member country exports. | | | Finally, total economic integration involves the joint pursuit of all macroeconomic functions by all member states. | | | Specifically, participation in an integration scheme is often viewed as the only means for breaking the shackles of limited domestic markets as well as an unfavorable post-colonial import/export trade structure. |
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http://www.rh.edu/jbdn/jbdnv203.htm
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| | afrol News - West Africa enhances economic integration |
| | Mr Wolfensohn, in an official visit to the country last week, expressed confidence in the Nigerian government's emerging programme for economic development and reform and said the Bank was prepared to invest as much as US$ 1 billion over the next two years to support the effort. | | | With Nigeria leading the way and enhanced economic integration, this could now change, according to the Bank. | | | This includes the democratisation of Nigeria - the region's greatest economy - and its new process of economic reform and poverty reduction. |
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http://www.afrol.com/articles/11940
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| | The achievement of the potential gains from economic integration will be limited to countries able and willing to cooperate to distribute these gains so that all partners may benefit compared to the results achievable by independent action. | | | Where economies of scale are in part external to national industries, the rationale for economic integration rests essentially upon the recognition of the externalities and market imperfections which extend beyond national boundaries. | | | Even when the existence of constraints on superior policy instruments is acknowledged, it is misleading to identify the results of regional economic integration by comparing an arbitrarily chosen common policy with an arbitrarily chosen national policy. |
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http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/K.Bain/cuaddn.html
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| | ASIL Electronic Resource Guide |
| | The Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (Treaty of Rome), effective January 1, 1958, established a Common Market, whose objective was to gradually develop integrated economic policies, a common tariff and the elimination of customs duties among members. | | | This chapter adopts a broad interpretation of international economic law encompassing both the conduct of sovereign states in international economic relations, and the conduct of private parties involved in cross-border economic and business transactions. | | | The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is an agency of the US Department of Commerce, also known as the nation‘s accountant. |
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http://www.asil.org/resource/iel1.htm
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| | An MBendi Profile - Organisation: Africa Institute for Policy Analysis and Economic Integration |
| | The Africa Institute for Policy Analysis and Economic Integration (AIPA) is an economic think-tank which was established in July 1992 in Cape Town to undertake high-level, inter-disciplinary and non-partisan research on African developmental issues. | | | It is in this context that AIPA is undertaking research aimed at identifying problem areas and formulating strategies for their resolution. | | | As a representative of an organisation you can also upgrade this directory entry. |
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http://mbendi.co.za/oraipa.htm
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| | Economic Integration and Political Disintegration |
| | Firstly, the economic benefits of country size are mediated by the degree of openness to trade. | | | "Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. | | | "The Breakup of Nations: A Political Economy Analysis," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. |
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http://ideas.repec.org/a/aea/aecrev/v90y2000i5p1276-1296.html
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| | Economic Integration |
| | Economic and Financial field: reduce barriers to trade and investment. | | | High unemployment caused member countries to institute policies that would prevent or postpone further progress toward economic integration. | | | It requires a single monetary system, a central bank, a unified fiscal system, and a common economic policy. |
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http://www.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ355/choi/int.htm
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| | Ministry of Works, & Economic Development |
| | The mandate of the National Human Development Advisory Committee (NHDAC) is to provide guidance for policy and programme development to the Government of Belize with regard to poverty elimination initiatives particularly as these relate to the social sector. | | | For this reason poverty elimination remains high on Government’s agenda and in the year 2002 much continuing effort has been targeted towards this goal. | | | Under the direction of the Minister of Economic Development, the abovementioned cost center executes the following functions: |
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http://www.belize.gov.bz/cabinet/v_marin/welcome.html
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| | Perspectives on OECD Economic Integration: Implications for US Current Account Adjustment |
| | If the current account deficit is eliminated in a precipitous and disorderly fashion, and the Fed attempts to maintain full employment, the depreciation could be much bigger, even on the order of 40% to 50%. | | | Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff, "Perspectives on OECD Economic Integration: Implications for US Current Account Adjustment" (September 1, 2000). | | | Perspectives on OECD Economic Integration: Implications for US Current Account Adjustment |
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http://repositories.cdlib.org/iber/cider/C00-116
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| | Amazon.co.uk: European Economic Integration: Books |
| | With its clear and accessible style and its combination of theory and applications, European Economic Integration provides up-to-date coverage of the most important issues facing European economies as the European Union in the 21st Century. | | | Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Economics > Economic Policy & Development | | | Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Economics > General |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0273679082
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| | AllRefer.com - Uruguay - Economic Integration Uruguayan Information Resource |
| | Economic integration with other Latin American nations was an important goal for Uruguay because of its small internal market. | | | The idea of integration was enshrined in the nation's constitution, which stated that "the Republic will seek to achieve social and economic integration of the Latin American nations, especially to provide for a common defense of products and raw materials." | | | Despite such early evidence that the trade agreements were having only a limited effect on regional commerce, Lacalle indicated in early 1990 that he expected Uruguay to continue to play a pivotal role in regional integration. |
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| | US should face facts: China's a big part of its future csmonitor.com |
| | Their economic boom (the Chinese economy is growing at roughly 9 percent a year) is creating a seemingly insatiable demand for oil. | | | The most recent, and certainly most significant, manifestation of globalization is the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) offer to pay $18.5 billion in cash for the American oil company Unocal. | | | WASHINGTON – The politics of international trade is changing and with it the traditional positions of Democrats and Republicans on foreign economic policy. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0707/p09s02-coop.html
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| | A/RES/46/145. Regional economic integration among developing countries |
| | Requests the regional commissions, together with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to contribute to the identification, preparation and implementation of specific projects to facilitate economic integration and to submit them to bilateral donors, regional development banks and financial institutions for their consideration; 4. | | | Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution. | | | Invites all States and regional economic integration organizations to support these initiatives; 5. |
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http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/46/a46r145.htm
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| | European Economic Integration Homepage |
| | Research Institute for European Affairs (IEF, University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria) | | | Related to European Integration in the Internet (by M. Nentwich) | | | Commerzbank: Information on European Economic and Monetary Union |
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http://politics.ankara.edu.tr/~kibritci/eurores.html
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| | Whither East Asian Economic Integration? |
| | Toward an Integrating Market: The Future of Hong Kong's Economy and its Interaction with the Chinese Mainland | | | East Asian economies, long known to be ambivalent toward regional integration, are dramatically changing their ways. | | | Second, the paper assesses the prospects for Asian economic integration in light of these forces as well as perceived obstacles. |
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http://www.brook.edu/fp/cnaps/papers/2002_munakata.htm
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| | Economic cooperation in Europe -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Focuses on its Economic Cross-Cultural Program (ECCP), European Community Investment Partners (ECIP), and "Partenariat" in Europe. | | | Learn why economic policies regarding ethnic minorities were initiated in Malaysia. | | | The organizations formed during the period were intended to bolster the Continent's economic standing and to promote its stability in the hope of avoiding another war. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9311191
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| | Daily Howler: The New York Times plays its readers for fools about those Wake County test scores |
| | The main reason for the students' dramatic improvement, say officials and parents in the county, which includes Raleigh and its sprawling suburbs, is that the district has made a concerted effort to integrate the schools economically... | | | The district took that course after federal court decisions began to dismantle race-based desegregation plans. | | | But the paper repeated the claim, without challenge—the scores have gone up due to Raleigh’s economic integration program. |
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http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh092605.shtml
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| | Regional economic integration among developing countries, United Nations, 6th General Assembly, 17 December 1991 | | | Impediments to Economic Integration in Africa: The Case of COMESA, JOURNAL OF BUSINESS IN DEVELOPING NATIONS, VOLUME 2 (1998) ARTICLE 3, Gerry Nkombo Muuka, Murray State University, (gerry.muuka@murraystate.edu) | | | The EC’s Impact Studies on Regional Economic Partnership Agreements. |
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| | Brookings Scholar: Michael Calingaert |
| | "A Perspective for U.S. Business in an Integrated Europe," Business Economics (July 1995) | | | Director of European Operations, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association; Economic Minister, U.S. Embassy, London; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Economic Minister, U.S. Embassy, Rome | | | European economic integration, European Union, Italy, transatlantic relations, Western Europe |
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http://www.brookings.edu/scholars/mcalingaert.htm
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| | 2000 Jackson Hole Symposium Program |
| | Economic Counsellor and Director of Research, International Monetary Fund | | | Head, Economics Department and Chief Economist, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development | | | HOW WILL INCREASED ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AFFECT FINANCIAL STABILITY? |
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| | SICE - Foreign Trade Information System |
| | This office supports the OAS member states in matters related to trade policy and economic integration. | | | SICE, the Foreign Trade Information System, makes available information about hemispheric integration and trade trends. |
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| | Economic Integration |
| | It highlights the value of integrating children from different economic levels. | | | Raleigh officials have made a concerted effort to economically integrate students, according to the article by Alan Finder. | | | This doesn't impair those at the higher levels of accompishment, but it does help those with lower test scores to raise their test scores. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/larryhol/iblog/C2050680009/E20050925150358
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| | »»Economic-union Reviews«« |
| | European Union Economies: A Comparative Study in Economic Integration | | | Related Subjects: Financial Book Review Economic-value-added Economics Economies-of-scope Edge-corporations Education-IRA Effective-Interest-Rate Effective-annual-interest-rate Effective-debt Effective-rate Effective-sale Effective-tax-rate Efficiency Efficient-Market-Hypothesis Efficient-capital-market Efficient-diversification Efficient-frontier Efficient-market Efficient-markets-theory Efficient-set Elasticity-of-demand Elasticity-of-supply Elect Election-Period | | | Book reviews for "Economic-union" sorted by average review score: |
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