The enlargement of the European Union towards the East from May 2004 has generated an increase of about 100 million inhabitants in the EU-15, and has especially brought along big challenges and important opportunities both for the new countries and for the ""Old Europe"". This is the main idea...

This paper presents West African Economic and Monetary Union's (WAEMU) report on Common Policies for Member Countries. The WAEMU's post-coronavirus disease 2019 recovery has withstood the new global and regional shocks, partly due to supportive macroeconomic policies and favorable initial...

In an increasingly mobile world, the integration of immigrants and displaced individuals is an important factor in creating cohesive and inclusive societies. Integration has different dimensions; this scoping review examines the conceptualization and measurement of economic integration among...

This study estimates the rate and distance to convergence of WAMZ Member States and provides a comparative analysis of nominal and real convergence to evaluate WAMZ's preparedness for monetary integration. We employ monthly data on the consumer price index and nominal exchange rate from January...

We use a model of combined endogenous growth and economic geography to study the impact of regional economic integration on the member and non-member countries of a regional union. Regional integration affects growth through interregional technology diffusion symbolized by knowledge spillovers...