TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pohl, Gerhard
AU  - Sorsa, Piritta
ED  - Banco Mundial
TI  - European integration and trade with the developing world
T2  - Policy and research series
SN  - 0821322044
U1  - 382.094 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - World Bank
KW  - COMERCIO EXTERIOR
KW  - INTEGRACION ECONOMICA
KW  - COMUNIDADES EUROPEAS
KW  - PAISES EN DESARROLLO
KW  - TERCER MUNDO
KW  - RELACIONES COMERCIALES
N1  - Incluye bibliografía; Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Summary -- 1. European integration: a slow revolution -- 2. The European Community's trade with the South -- 3. The single european market -- 4. East-West European integration -- Annexes -- Notes -- References -- Tables -- Boxes -- Figures -- Annex tables -- Annex figures -- Acknowledgments
N2  - European economic integration is proving to be good for most developing countries. Overall, the creation of the European Community (EC) has imparted a liberalizing trend on the trade policies of most of its members, by lowering tariffs and reducing nontariff barriers. The single market project, initiated in 1985, will complete the process of market integration for most goods and services. Market unification will improve external access and accelerate growth in EC incomes - increasing import demand. Higher growth should also help to contain protectionist pressures within the European Community. EC policies toward developing countries are not perfect - far from it. But the effects of European integration must be compared to what would have happened in its absence. Generally, moves to strengthen integration - in the early 1960s and since 1985 - have been accompanied by reductions in external-trade barriers, while periods of slow integration have also witnessed a resurgence of protectionism and introduction of new trade barriers. However, macroeconomic conditions - such as period of flow growth or wide fluctuations in exchange rates - have been more important determinants of trade patterns and protectionist pressures. Agriculture is perhaps the only sector where EC membership may have contributed to an upward drift in protection
ER  -