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

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.

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.

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

Can Regional Integration Save Africa?

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

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

Subprogramme 4 Regional integration and responding to globalization

Thailand has gradually liberalized its retail trade since the late 1980s.

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,

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

Participation by regional economic integration organizations

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

Asia s leaders must move to better insure their countries against the risk of economic dislocation that comes with de facto regional integration.

It can be considered the second stage of economic integration.

Article 17 Participation by regional economic integration organizations

Noting that, to date, there are one hundred and ninety two parties to the Convention, including one hundred and ninety one States and one regional economic integration organization,

There is a powerful argument for regional economic integration on the continent, abolishing trade barriers, sharing infrastructure like power generation, and allowing free movement of people, goods, money, and jobs.

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

As a result, regional trade and economic integration have been stifled.

Article 16 bis. Participation by regional economic integration organizations

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

Only after economic integration had progressed did the first serious efforts at political integration take place.

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

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

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Article 16 bis. Participation by regional economic integration organizations (resumed)

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.

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

But economic integration has not been matched diplomatically.

While other organizations focus on economic integration, ALBA promotes social, political, and economic integration among countries that subscribe to democratic socialism.

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 was his delegation's understanding that it was the regional economic integration organization.

5. Notes with satisfaction the commitment of States members of the Community to scale up the implementation of regional economic integration through, inter alia, the launching of a free trade area by 2008 and the preparations for a custom union by 2010