Quantitative Monitoring and Comparison of Regional Integration Processes: Steps Toward Good Practise

Lombaerde, Philippe De; Dorrucci, Ettore; Genna, Gaspare M.; Mongeli, Francesco Paolo

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“…the number of aspects that are covered) and above all the methodological (i.e. statistical) approach (for a more general, detailed, and still recent review, see De Lombaerde, Dorrucci et al 2008). Needless to say that one should also be aware of the abundant literature on related indices of human development, social indices for inequality (concerning income, gender, race, etc.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…There exist hardly any proposals for monitoring social RI (see discussions of De Lombaerde, Dorrucci et al 2008 andDe Lombaerde, Pietrangeli, andWeeratunge 2008). Combining these ideas with Ruiz Estrada (2004a), we propose to estimate social integration via life expectancy, years of schooling and the Gini index for inequality as these are easily available and doubtless reflect three key items of social structure and living conditions.…”

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Practical Tools for Monitoring Convergence, Integration and Development: Compare and Apply

Sperlich

2012

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

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It is generally believed that an adequate set of indices can serve as a useful tool for monitoring processes or developments like integration, measuring and comparing performance for policy analysis and evaluation. To this aim, many institutions and especially statistical offices all over the world prepare several hundreds of such indicators to monitor their development targets. Unfortunately, many of them are quite deficient in several aspects. This article introduces indices as practical tools to monitor integration, globalization, and development, and puts its main focus on multidimensionality, feasibility, universality and comparability. This indicator system is easily implemented and applicable worldwide; it applies equally well to North-North, North-South, or South-South agreements. The indices are illustrated by monitoring and comparing the WAEMU (representing South-South areas), the NAFTA (North-South area), the ANZCERTA and the EU-15 (North-North areas). Due to the issue of measurability and as they often are of major interest, special focus is put on economic aspects.

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Section: A Brief Discussion Of Existing Indicesmentioning

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Section: The Selection Of Indicatorsmentioning

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Practical Tools for Monitoring Convergence, Integration and Development: Compare and Apply

Sperlich

2012

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

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“…1 Any such composite index depends on the data used and the chosen aggregation methods. Although several authors have recently proposed procedures to construct such an index, no standard procedure has been established in the literature so far (see also De Lombaerde et al 2008). The methods applied in this paper are specifically designed to capture integration outcomes along multiple distinct dimensions in a coherent and transparent way and to aggregate the data to ensure comparability of variables with different scales and units of measurement.…”

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“…As De Lombaerde et al (2008) argue, there is a need for quantitative measures and empirically verifiable analyses of regional integration outcomes, which this paper seeks to address. Most of the existing studies on regional integration can be classified into two groups.…”

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An Empirical Estimation of Asia's Untapped Regional Integration Potential Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Naeher

2015

Asian Development Review

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“…We shall merely state that while building the SIEI there has been extensive use of the best world practices. In particular, we utilized findings and logic of ARIC (2009) andCOMESA (2002), as well as academic work on measuring regional integration (De Lombaerde and Van Langenhove 2006;De Lombaerde et al 2008and Osterkamp 2008).…”

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The EDB System of Indicators of Eurasian Integration: Eurasian Integration’s Trends from 1999 to 2012

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Libman

Pereboyev

2017

United Nations University Series on Regionalism

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Quantitative Monitoring and Comparison of Regional Integration Processes: Steps Toward Good Practise

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Practical Tools for Monitoring Convergence, Integration and Development: Compare and Apply

Practical Tools for Monitoring Convergence, Integration and Development: Compare and Apply

An Empirical Estimation of Asia's Untapped Regional Integration Potential Using Data Envelopment Analysis

The EDB System of Indicators of Eurasian Integration: Eurasian Integration’s Trends from 1999 to 2012

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