Can Regional Integration Save Africa?

Subprogramme 4 Regional integration and responding to globalization

(d) Support regional and subregional integration processes and promote the negotiations on agreements with the European Union

Regional integration could contribute to higher growth in two ways.

In the Middle East, the process of regional integration could begin with water and energy.

Subprogramme 5 Information and communication technology for regional integration

Performance indicators for tracking progress towards regional integration at the regional and subregional levels will be also developed

Regional integration is an important facet of development in the contemporary international situation.

5. Recognizes that regional integration initiatives between developing countries constitute an important and valuable form of South South cooperation and that regional integration is a step towards beneficial integration into the world economy

Attention should be focused on Arab regional integration and the study of mechanisms that would activate this integration and on reviewing the existing organizational structure of the secretariat in order best to serve Arab integration.

6. Recognizes that regional integration initiatives between developing countries constitute an important and valuable form of South South cooperation and that regional integration is a step towards beneficial integration into the world economy

Promote and strengthen regional and sub regional integration through groupings and other arrangements based on mutual benefit, complementarities and solidarity among developing countries with a view to facilitating and accelerating the economic growth and development of their economies.

Movements towards regional and subregional integration have also increased the space for South South relations.

Several previous attempts at regional integration failed in part because of a faulty view of the sequence of integration.

ASYCUDA created regional centres to support the user countries and facilitate regional integration.

A successful process of regional integration in the Middle East will also require a political framework that ensures the stability needed to make regional cooperation work.

Indeed, none of the current initiatives to boost Latin American regional integration resemble at all the European integration process.

Many people started to think of regional integration as the answer to depression.

Boosting regional integration in the Maghreb promises much and would cost relatively little.

Regional economic integration initiatives usually focus on trade liberalization, tariff reduction and quota abolition.

There should be a dedicated space for issues of regional integration and the way ahead for regional economic communities.

18.13 Despite the various efforts made towards regional integration among member States in the 1950s, the basic requirements for achieving economic integration have not been established.

We are the only continent where regional integration and common markets have not taken hold.

SANTIAGO Regional integration is usually regarded as a way for countries to strengthen themselves.

Many Europeans doubt that Asia can catch up with Europe in terms of regional integration.

It seems that Latin America has abandoned the principles, commitments, and foundations of full regional integration.

Regional integration is a recipe for long term stability in Asia, and a second line of engagement for the EU.

Many developing countries have expanded their national South South programmes because of increased regional integration.

Second is the regional provision of goods and services that can benefit from the pooling of national services at the regional level. Third of all is regional integration through the lowering of market and technical barriers between countries.

Nowadays southern African countries are committed to reinforcing their regional integration through economic harmonization.

Europe, Asia, and, increasingly, Latin America, are showing that regional integration provides the healthiest path to development.

The Parties are in favour of developing horizontal links between regional integration associations and establishing a climate of mutual trust and cooperation among them.

Article 44 Regional integration organizations

2. Recalls the potential of regional integration and cooperation to improve the effectiveness of traditional commodity sectors and support diversification efforts

Boosting regional integration in the Maghreb promises much and would cost relatively little. But outside help is essential.

But North Africa must also work on regional economic integration in order to boost the effectiveness of national policies.

But today s efforts at regional integration in Latin America seem to have a different purpose altogether.

Alongside this focus on improving African governance, we must also put pressure on our leaders to encourage regional integration.

ECLAC has also been seized with the new challenges to regional integration and trade.

Viewing this country as an integral part of the Central Asian space, Uzbekistan actively advocates including it in regional integration processes.

Southern Africa s leading economies must therefore make every effort to promote regional integration.

In Europe and elsewhere, regional integration is gradually changing the political environment, increasing self confidence in societies and bringing international trust.

Since the region is so rich in resources, change could be readily achieved in a more regionally integrative and tension defused environment.

The role of regional commissions was critical to assistance aimed at the regional integration of such territories and to their closer linkage with the United Nations system.

Encouraged by the work carried out to date under the Convention, and satisfied that most States and one regional economic integration organization are parties to the Convention,