Regional Integration and Poverty

Dirk Willem te Velde, the Overseas Development Institute

This volume examines the channels through which regional integration affects poverty and empirically analyzes the effects on foreign direct investment.

Contents: Regional Integration and Poverty: Introduction, Dirk Willem te Velde. Part 1 Regional Integration and Poverty: Conceptual Issues and Evidence So Far: Regional integration, trade, foreign direct investment and migration, Dirk Willem te Velde, Sheila Page and Oliver Morrissey; Trade , FDI, migration and poverty, Dirk Willem te Velde, Sheila Page and Oliver Morrissey; Regional Integration and Poverty: towards a conceptual framework, Dirk Willem te Velde, Sheila Page and Oliver Morrissey. Part 2 Describing and Monitoring Regional Integration: Investment-related provisions in regional trade agreements, Dirk Willem te Velde and Miatta Fahnbulleh. Part 3 Case Studies of Bolivia and Tanzania: Regional integration and poverty: the case of Bolivia, Osvaldo Nina and Lykke E Andersen; Regional integration and poverty: the case of Tanzania, Josaphat Kweka and Phillip Gaspar Mboya; Regional integration and poverty: conclusions, Dirk Willem te Velde; Index.