Trade and Regionalism: The Links with Development

Sheila Page

No 8758, IDB Publications from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: Neither regional integration nor trade is a welfare or policy objective in itself. If countries are pursuing policies to promote them, this is as a means to improve their welfare. The ultimate objective need not be under a purely economic definition: there is a long history of seeing integration through trade as a way of preventing conflict among countries.

Keywords: Integration & Trade :: Trade Agreements; Integration & Trade; Integration & Trade :: Globalization & Regionalization; Trade; Regionalism and Globalization; Regionalismo y Globalización (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-05
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