The decade of the 1990s has witnessed a wave of regional integration initiatives in Latin America: more than 14 agreements -free trade areas or customs unions- since 1990 with a handful more in varying degrees of negotiation (see Table 1). However, this was not just a Latin American phenomenon,...

This presentation discusses the Asian Development Bank's (ADB's) Regional Cooperation and Integration (RCI) Strategy. The RCI strategy includes a results-based monitoring framework to monitor progress in each pillar. The framework identifies broad outcomes to be achieved, performance monitoring...

This presentation discusses select regional integration projects from Southern Europe and the impact from these case studies. Specifically mentioned are the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and INTERREG, an initiative that aims to stimulate cooperation between regions in...

The purpose of this document is to inform Bank staff and other interested parties about recent developments in integration and trade among the countries of the Western Hemisphere and between these and other countries and world regions.

Trade between Latin America and China has grown at an annual average rate of 25 percent since 2000, driven primarily by strong complementarity between the two economies. While commodities-for-manufacturing trade continues to be the dominant feature of the economic relationship, a number of LAC...

The purpose of this document is to inform Bank staff and other interested parties about recent developments in integration and trade among the countries of the Western Hemisphere and between these and other countries and world regions.