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Integration theory and the problems of integration policy in the Third World

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The many groupings of developing countries formed in the fifties and sixties with a view to establishing a customs union have failed to achieve convincing results so far. Would another integration strategy have been more successful?

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  1. Regarding integration groupings in general, see G. Schiavone: International Organizations, London and Basingstoke 1983; W. Andersen, W. Woyke: Handwörterbuch Internationale Organisationen, Opladen 1986.

  2. For further details, see V. Nienhaus: Außenwirtschaftliche integrationstheorie und die Integrationspolitik großer Entwicklungsländer-Gruppierungen, Berlin 1986/87 (forthcoming).

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Nienhaus, V. Integration theory and the problems of integration policy in the Third World. Intereconomics 22, 41–48 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929794

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