The European Community and the Developing Countries

This 1993 book analyses and evaluates European Community trade, aid and industrial policies towards developing countries.

Enzo R. Grilli (Author)

9780521385114, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 February 1993

408 pages, 4 b/w illus. 41 tables
21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.67 kg

'Grilli's arguments about the nature of the EC's regionalism are compelling … ' David Lubin, Financial Times

The European Community has long been the largest trading bloc in the world. It is also on the way to becoming the world's largest integrated economic zone. Its trade, aid and development cooperation policies are therefore of great importance to developing countries. At the same time, the developing countries have continued to be of interest to the Community, both as outlets for its exports and capital investments and as sources of raw materials. This 1993 book analyses and evaluates European Community trade, aid and industrial policies towards developing countries - their origin, main features, logic, evolution and effectiveness in reaching the goals assigned to them. The author sums up the state of Europe's development policies by describing them as regional in scope, colonial in geographical emphasis, discriminatory in their effects and lacking in overall cogency. This incisive re-evaluation illustrates the different strategies the EC countries might pursue in their relations with the outside world as they progress towards fuller economic integration.

List of abbreviations
List of tables
List of figures
1. European associationism: new beginning or more of the same?
2. The aid dimension: Europeanisation of development assistance or two track policy?
3. The Community's aid model: continuation of colonial patterns or new form of cooperation with associated developing countries?
4. Trade policies towards the associates: the privileges that did not matter
5. The Southern policies of the EC: keeping the Mediterranean safe for Europe
6. The periphery of EC reach: trade and cooperation policies with Latin America
7. EC and Asia: growing further apart
8. Eastern Europe: the newest development challenge for the Community
9. EC development policies: retrospect and prospects.

Subject Areas: Development economics & emerging economies [KCM], EU & European institutions [JPSN2], Development studies [GTF]