Traduction de «Relations commerciales Nord-Sud et développement » (Français → Anglais) :

Economic integration is a key component of that process and will be underpinned by a strengthened development- oriented trading relationship between the EU and Africa.

The European Union and South Africa have concluded a bilateral agreement covering trade relations, development cooperation, economic cooperation and numerous other fields such as socio-cultural cooperation and political dialogue.

Development of trade among developing countries is also essential , as those are the countries where demand for food is expected to rise, and where most of the future growth in and benefits from trade are likely to arise.

As you may recall, the state of the political and economic union has been a major part of my institute's work, especially in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s when dealing with the political union occupied national attention at the same time as the major shifts were happening in North-South trade relationships.

- 2 - Main topics of research will be : 1. the Community's internal market programme raises many issues of microeconomic analysis, including industrial organisation and the economics of regulatory policies (e.g. standards) that deserve urgent attention; 2. European integration economics, including issues of intra- European regional North- South relations, raises a further set of issues not well covered by the research community; 3. the determinants of economic growth in Western Europe, including dynamic factors such as advanced technology and innovation, and constraints, such as environmental concerns; 4. so-called "systemic" issues i ...[+++]n the monetary areas and macroeconomic and fiscal policy coordination have received increasing academic attention in recent years, but rarely dealing adequately with their intra-European as compared to their international aspects; 5. problems of trade policy and the role of Western Europe in the international division of labour; 6. employment and social policy issues, which have quite different characteristics in Western Europe, compared to the United States or Japan; 7. methodological and modelling problems relevant to the above mentioned subjects or otherwise of fundamental interest.

- 2 - Possible topics of research are : 1. the Community's internal market programme raises many issues of microeconomic analysis, including industrial organisation zand the economics of regulatory policies (e.g. standards) that deserve urgent attention; 2. European integration economics, including issues of intra-European regional North-South relations, raises a further set of issues not well covered by the research community; 3. the determinants of economic growth in Western Europe, including dynamic factors such as advanced technology and innovation, and constraints, such as environmental concerns; 4. so-called "systemic" issues in ...[+++] the monetary areas and macroeconomic and fiscal policy coordination have received increasing academic attention in recent years, but rarely dealing adequately with their intra-European as compared to their international aspects; 5. problems of trade policy and the role of Western Europe in the international division of labour; 6. employment and social policy issues, which have quite different characteristics in Western Europe, compared to the United States or Japan; 7. methodological and modelling problems relevant to the above mentioned subjects or otherwise of fundamental interest.