This paper investigates regional and international integration of maize markets in Zambia to test wether the liberalization policy has led to internally and externally integrated food markets. The results indicate that regional maize markets
are integrated ; however, the level of regional and international market integration is low and has not increased over time. - (L'A.).
(EXTR. DU BULL. HEBD. DE LA KREDIETBANK, 8 NOV. 1974). ETUDE DES PRINCIPALES TENTATIVES D'INTEGRATION ECONOMIQUE QUI ONT POUR CADRE L'AFRIQUE NOIRE. OUA, OCAM, UMOA, CEAO, UDEAC, CEA. A QUI PROFITE CETTE INTEGRATION. (INRA).
The integration of the Franco-Mauritian community into South African society
An examination of the Franco-Mauritian community in South Africa and the extent of its integration into the host community. The problems and strategies of integration are examined. - (AJC)
Austria ; France ; Immigrants ; Model ; Netherlands (The) ; Social integration ; Typology
This paper deals with contemporary relevance of the classical typology of integration models in the case of Austria, France and the Netherlands. Based on the lastest development in the field of integration policy, it shows great changes
in integration approaches and thus queries the validity of integration typology for these countries. It tries furthermore to compare the level of integration of immigrant population in order to confront the effectiveness of different states' approaches
Africa ; Economic integration ; Economic policy ; Political geography ; Region ; Regionalism ; Southern Africa
Regional integration amongst the countries of Southern Africa is experiencing a fundamental realignment in the post-apartheid era. An examination of the principle factors, both international in the twenty-first century is offered. It is argued
that the existing political infrastructure supporting regional integration has the potential to promote rivalry between the various regional arrangements and, ultimately, their member states. - (AJC)
Identifying European economic integration and globalization : a review of concepts and measures
Economic geography ; Economic integration ; Economic policy ; Europe ; European Union ; Globalization ; Gross domestic product ; International trade ; Trade agreement ; Transaction cost
Processes of regional economic integration such as the European integration process have been shaping the economic relations between countries significantly during the last decades. At the same time an increasing integration of all national
economies into the global economy has affected these economic relations, too. In an effort to contribute to operationalizing these integration processes for the purpose of empirical analyses, this paper reviews the concepts and actual measures of European
integration and globalization. In particular, it discusses ways of separating the effects of European integration from those of globalization, thereby also reducing problems of endogeneity and collinearity.
African regional integration and European involvement : external agents in the East African Community
Africa ; Development ; Eastern Africa ; Geopolitics ; Policy ; Regional integration ; Resource management ; Sovereignty
This paper examines the European Union model of integration and compares it with that of the East African Community. The European promotion of regional integration is part of the notion of a geopolitical mission based on the objective of aligning
internal and external policy agendas. African elites though frequently view integration as a way mobilising resources and asserting state sovereignty. - (AJC)
DIE SOZIALISTISCHE OKONOMISCHE INTEGRATION UND DIE HERAUSBILDUNG OPTIMALER VOLKSWIRTSCHAFTSKOMPLEXE IN DEN MITGLIEDSLANDERN DES RGW INTEGRATION ECONOMIQUE DANS LES PAYS SOCIALISTES ET DEVELOPPEMENT DE COMPLEXES ECONOMIQUES NATIONAUX OPTIMAUX DANS
1960-1972 ; C.A.E.M. ; COMECON ; ECONOMIE ; EUROPE ; EUROPE SOCIALISTE ; Géographie de l'Europe ; INTEGRATION ; PLANIFICATION INTERNATIONALE ; STRATEGIE
L'A. MONTRE L'INTERDEPENDANCE EXISTANT ENTRE L'INTEGRATION ECONOMIQUE CROISSANTE EN ECONOMIE SOCIALISTE ET LA PERFECTIBILITE DES COMPLEXES ECONOMIQUES NATIONAUX. L'EXTENSION DE LA TACHE ECONOMIQUE COMMUNE DEPEND D'UNE POLITIQUE DE DEVELOPPEMENT
, D'UNE PLANIFICATION ET D'UNE CREATION COMMUNES DEBOUCHANT SUR LES STRATEGIES LES PLUS EFFICACES D'INTEGRATION. LES PROBLEMES ACTUELS SONT EVOQUES: INSUFFISANCE DES STRUCTURES EXISTANTES, DIFFICULTES D'INTEGRATION ET D'OPTIMISATION DE LA PRODUCTION, NEES