About the Book
Developing countries have joined the rapidly growing global system of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past years. The drive towards regional integration has advanced with the formation of new markets and groups in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Oceania with few developing countries remaining outside these regional schemes.
This volume looks at how 'getting governance right' is a central element for successful RTA implementation, taking stock of the quality and effectiveness of the monitoring of development country RTAs around the world. Organized by the main world regions and primarily focusing on developing country RTAs, the book also includes two case studies focused on monitoring in developed country regional agreements by way of comparison. The contributors operationalize governance in the context of RTA implementation with a more narrow and technical term of 'monitoring' and provide eight important lessons for assessing monitoring around the world.
Table of Contents:
Contents: Governing regional integration for development; introduction, Philippe de Lombaerde, Antoni Estevadeordal and Kati Suominen. Part 1 Latin America and the Caribbean: Monitoring regional integration and cooperation in the Andean region, Fernando Prada and Avaro Espinosa; 'Learning to integrate': the experience of monitoring the CARICOM single market and economy, Norman Girvan; Monitoring regional integration: the case of Central America, Kati Suominen; Monitoring regional integration and cooperation: the case of Mercosur, Ricardo Rozemberg and Carlos Bozzalla. Part 2 Asia and the Pacific: Results-based monitoring of regional integration and cooperation in ASEAN, Cuong Nguyen and Clay Westcott; Regional monitoring in the Pacific: the Pacific Islands Forum, William Sutherland; Monitoring regional integration and cooperation in South Asia, Rodrigo Tavares. Part 3 Africa and the Middle East: Monitoring regional integration and cooperation in the Gulf region, Bernard Savage; Monitoring regional integration and cooperation in the South: the Arab Maghreb Union, Thouka Al-Khalidi; Monitoring regional integration in Eastern and Southern Africa, Dirk Hansohm and Jonathan Adongo. Part 4 Europe and North America: Monitoring and (good) governance of the integration process in the European Union, Ana-Cristina Costea, Philippe de Lombaerde, Wouter de Vriendt and Birger Fühne; Seasoned monitoring: the case of North America, Kati Suominen; Governing regional integration for development: summary and conclusions, Philippe de Lombaerde, Antoni Estevadeordal and Kati Suominen; Index.
About the Author :
Philippe De Lombaerde is based at the United Nations University-Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Belgium, Antoni Estevadeordal is based at the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, USA, and Kati Suominen is based at The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington, USA.
Philippe de Lombaerde, Antoni Estevadeordal Kati Suominen, Fernando Prada, Avaro Espinosa, Norman Girvan, Ricardo Rozemberg, Carlos Bozzalla, Cuong Nguyen, Clay Westcott, William Sutherland, Rodrigo Tavares, Bernard Savage, Thouka Al-Khalidi, Dirk Hansohm, Jonathan Adongo, Ana-Cristina Costea, Wouter de Vriendt, Birger Fühne.
Review :
'...a unique contribution to the literature on regional economic integration among developing countries. It looks behind the legal texts, communiques and modelling results to provide a picture of how the machinery of integration is working in practice in developing country initiatives across the continents. The result is a most useful compendium of information that is normally difficult to access. Adding to the fascination of the volume is the opportunity it provides to make comparisons between the different groupings of the experiences, approaches and lessons from their regional economic integration efforts.' Robert Scollay, University of Auckland, New Zealand. 'Governing Regional Integration for Development: Monitoring Experience, Methods and Prospects is the premiere book to suggest that member-States of a regional integration bloc do not only commit to the economic programmes of the bloc but, in addition, adhere, collectively, to the sound political, economic and social governance. It does so by providing insights and "best practices" of regional groupings in the various regions around the world. It is a book accessible to all: the academician, the policymaker and the layperson. Contributes significantly to the discourse on regional integration in Africa and therefore strongly recommended.' Robert M. Okello, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Ethiopia
