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Regional Integration in Africa: The Case of ECOWAS.

ABSTRACT

Regional Integration in Africa: The case of ECOWAS attempts to describe, evaluate and analyze the inter-locking web of factors that promote and/or inhibit meaningful regional economic integration in West Africa.

While combining the analytical tools of the inter-disciplinary approach, the work elucidates the seeming difficulty in attaining meaningful regional economic integration in West Africa due to decades of structural disequilibria.

The study posits a significant incongruity and obvious incompatibility between the long-term challenges of regional economic integration programmes on the one hand, and the urgent national needs of member states of ECOWAS on the other.

It maintains that West African economies before and after independence and substantially to the present remained structurally truncated and functionally disarticulated to attain any meaningful balanced and diversified development.

The study contends that the economic basis of the West African states have so far proved grossly inefficient to shoulder the burden of real adjustments needed for a practical implementation of the key regional economic integration programmes. The consequence is a gradual but steady erosion of the capacity and psychological commitment of member states of ECOWAS in the implementation regional economic integration programmes.

Es wird vorgebracht, dass sich die wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen westafrikanischer Staaten bisher als schwerwiegend ineffizient erwiesen, um die Lasten realer Anpassungen tragen zu helfen, die noetig sind fuer eine Umsetzung der wichtigsten Programme regionaler wirtschaftlicher Integration. Die Folge ist eine schrittweise, stetige Erosion der Faehigkeit und der psychologischen Bereitschaft der ECOWAS-Mitgliedstaaten, die Programme regionaler wirtschaftlicher Integration umzusetzen.

Finally, the work suggests that cooperation rather than out-right integration seems a more practical development option for ECOWAS. It further highlighted the future challenges that underlie the necessity for greater expansion of the search for a more practicable nationally oriented path to sustainable growth and development in West Africa bearing in mind the probable limitations of the study.

You may download the Dcoument as a .pdf-file

For further information contact:

Dr. Sunday Anadi
sunnyanadi@yahoo.com

Co - ordinator in Switzerland :
Universitat Zurich
Institute fur Politikwissenschaft
Abteilung Internationale Beziehungen
Sekretariat
Seilergraben 49, 8001 Zurich.
Tel: 41 - 1 - 632- 6360
Fax : 41 - 1 - 632 - 1944.


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		Programme de bourses "Echanges Universitaires" Regional Integration in Africa: The Case of ECOWAS. ABSTRACT Regional Integration in Africa: The case of ECOWAS attempts to describe, evaluate and analyze the inter-locking web of factors that promote and/or inhibit meaningful regional economic integration in West Africa. While combining the analytical tools of the inter-disciplinary approach, the work elucidates the seeming difficulty in attaining meaningful regional economic integration in West Africa due to decades of structural disequilibria. The study posits a significant incongruity and obvious incompatibility between the long-term challenges of regional economic integration programmes on the one hand, and the urgent national needs of member states of ECOWAS on the other. It maintains that West African economies before and after independence and substantially to the present remained structurally truncated and functionally disarticulated to attain any meaningful balanced and diversified development. The study contends that the economic basis of the West African states have so far proved grossly inefficient to shoulder the burden of real adjustments needed for a practical implementation of the key regional economic integration programmes. The consequence is a gradual but steady erosion of the capacity and psychological commitment of member states of ECOWAS in the implementation regional economic integration programmes. Es wird vorgebracht, dass sich die wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen westafrikanischer Staaten bisher als schwerwiegend ineffizient erwiesen, um die Lasten realer Anpassungen tragen zu helfen, die noetig sind fuer eine Umsetzung der wichtigsten Programme regionaler wirtschaftlicher Integration. Die Folge ist eine schrittweise, stetige Erosion der Faehigkeit und der psychologischen Bereitschaft der ECOWAS-Mitgliedstaaten, die Programme regionaler wirtschaftlicher Integration umzusetzen. Finally, the work suggests that cooperation rather than out-right integration seems a more practical development option for ECOWAS. It further highlighted the future challenges that underlie the necessity for greater expansion of the search for a more practicable nationally oriented path to sustainable growth and development in West Africa bearing in mind the probable limitations of the study. You may download the Dcoument as a .pdf-file For further information contact: Dr. Sunday Anadi sunnyanadi@yahoo.com Co - ordinator in Switzerland : Universitat Zurich Institute fur Politikwissenschaft Abteilung Internationale Beziehungen Sekretariat Seilergraben 49, 8001 Zurich. Tel: 41 - 1 - 632- 6360 Fax : 41 - 1 - 632 - 1944.