Integration and Unequal Development: The Experience of the EEC PDF
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INTEGRATION AND UNEQUAL DEVELOPMENT The Experience of the EEC STUDIES IN THE INTEGRATION OF WESTERN EUROPE General Editors: Dudley Seers, Professorial Fellow, University of Sussex, and Constantine Vaitsos, Professor of Political Economy, Uni versity of Athens. Edited by Dudley Seers and INTEGRATION AND Constantine Vaitsos UNEQUAL DEVELOPMENT with the assistance of The Experience of the EEC Marja-Liisa Kiljunen Edited by Dudley Seers and THE Constantine Vaitsos SECOND ENLARGEMENT with the assistance of OF THE EEC Marja-Liisa Kiljunen The Integration of Unequal Partners Edited by Juan Antonio Payno THE and Jose Luis Sampedro SECOND ENLARGEMENT OF THE EEC The Prospective New Members Integration and Unequal Development The Experience of the EEe Edited by Dudley Seers and Constantine Vaitsos with the assistance of Marja-Liisa Kiljunen © Dudley Seers 1980 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1980 All rights reserved. No part ofthis publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission First published 1980 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD London and Basingstoke Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 978-1-349-05540-1 ISBN 978-1-349-05538-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-05538-8 Contents List ofT ables vii List ofF igures and Map xi Preface to the Series xiii Preface xv List ofA bbreviations and Symbols xvii Notes on the Contributors XIX Introduction Dudley Seers and Constantine Vaitsos 1 PART I GENERAL ISSUES 1 Theoretical Aspects of Unequal Development at Different Spatial Levels Dudley Seers 9 2 Corporate Integration in World Production and Trade Constantine Vaitsos 24 3 ACaseStudyofLatinAmericaErnesto Tironi 46 4 The EEC and the World Economy Geoffrey Barraclough 57 PART II THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ON MEMBER COUNTRIES 5 A Politico-economic Overview Horst Reichenbach 75 6 Italy Massimo Roccas 100 7 Ireland Anthony Coughlan 121 8 Britain Martin Fetherston, Barry Moore andlohn Rhodes 136 9 France Udo Rehfeldt 155 10 Federal Republic of Germany FriederSchlupp 176 11 Regional Disparities and Policy in the EEC Marja-Liisa Kiljunen 199 12 The European Monetary System Robert Triffin 223 v vi Contents PART III THE EEC AND THE REST OF THE WORLD 13 The EEC and the ACP Countries Lynn Mytelka and Michael Dolan 237 14 The EEC and the Maghreb and Mashreq Countries Annette Robert 261 15 The EEC and Cyprus and Turkey Hans Gsiinger 279 16 Externalising Problems in a Future EEC Manfred Biene- feld 291 Conclusions: the EEC and Unequal Development (i) Dudley Seers 307 (ii) Constantine Vaitsos 318 Statistical Annex Giselle Marques 323 Index 353 List of Tables 5.1 Regional and national average rates of unemploy- mentinEECcountries, 1968, 1973 and 1978 76 5.2 Regional or state per capita product and income differences in relation to national (or Community) average 78-9 5.3 Community GDP and the aggregate GDP ofItaly, the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1973-7 80 5.4 Gross energy consumption, internal production and net imports, 1977; cost of energy supply, 1976- 80 {as percentage of GNP) 81 5.5 EECtrade, 1958, 1972 and 1977 83 5.6 The trend in the volume ofthe General Budget of theEEC, 1973-9 85 5.7 General trend in expenditure and revenue, 1979- ~ ~ 5.8 Community loan commitments, 1973-8 88 5.9 Total Community structural grant (EAGGF Guidance, Social Fund, Regional Fund, ECSC Fund) commitments per capita, 1975-8 93 5.10 Labour migration in the Community: foreign employees in member states by nationality, 1976 96 6.1 Percentage shares of different sectors in total Italian employment and gross domestic product during the 1950sand 1960s 101 6.2 Average yearly changes in principal Italian econ- omicvariables{inreal terms) 104 6.3 Percentage shares of Italian exports of manufac- tures 108 6.4 Composition of EEC countries' exports of manu- factures 109 6.5 Indexes of per capita income 112 vii viii Lislo/Tables 6.6 Indexes of regional differences for a twenty-year period,1951-71 113 7.1 Imports to and exports from Ireland 125 7.2 Sectoral employment and total population trends in Ireland 127 8.1 Conditional estimates of the EEC effect on UK manufactured exports, 1973-7, based on high and low elasticity assumptions 142 8.2 Conditional estimates of the EEC effect on UK manufactured imports, 1973-7, based on high and low elasticity assumptions 143 8.3 Conditional estimates of the EEC effect on UK manufacturing trade, 1973-7, based on intermedi- ate elasticity assumptions 145 8.4 UK net invisible transactions, 1973-7 146 8.5 UK direct investment overseas 147 8.6 Net cash receipts and payments between EEC members, 1978 148 9.1 Structural change in the French economy, 1960- 76 158 9.2 French trade balance with different countries, 1960-76 160 9.3 French trade balance, 1970-6 161 9.4 French foreign trade structure, 1960-73 161 9.5 Index of French export specialisations within EEC 162 9.6 World export market shares, 1901-76 162 9.7 Share in exports of the nine EEC countries 163 9.8 French market shares by main sectors, 1961 and 1974 164 9.9 Turnover of French firms under foreign control in the industrial sector (except food industry) 166 9.10 Geographical breakdown of gross foreign direct investment flows to France 167 9.11 Developed market economy shares in stock of direct investment abroad 168 9.12 France's net receipts from the EAGGF 172 10.1 Comparison of cumulative trade balance of the six largest capitalist countries, 1970-7 179 10.2 International sectoral hierarchies in trade between futureEECmembers, 1955 181 List of Tables IX 1O.3a Trade intensities between EEC member countries, 1958-72 182 lO.3b Trade intensities of the new EEC member countries with the Six, 1972 183 10.4 The dominating position of the West German economy in Western European trade, 1975 vs. 1956: Shares of major trading countries in Western European imports 184 10.5 Rank and percentage shares of major machinery exporters in machinery imports of Western and Southern European countries, 1975 186 10.6 The contribution of selected 'core' industries to West German foreign trade surpluses, 1960-8 187 10.7 West German (merchandise) trade balance, 1960-76,accordingtomajorcountrygroupings 188 10.8 Shares of the most important partner countries in West Germany's main international economic exchanges,1977 190 1O.9a Employment in West German manufacturing, 1970 and 1978, in main industry 192 1O.9b West German manufacturing industries ranked according to decreases in employment, 1970 to 1978 192 11.1 Regional disparities in the EEC, 1957-77 202-3 11.2 Average annual GDP per capita growth rates, 196~7 7 in EEC countries 204 11.3 Population changes 207 11.4 Regional dispersion ofGDP per capita 209 11.5 Regional dispersion ofGDP per capita 210 11.6 Unemployment rate 211 11.7 Total and per capita commitments from ERDF and number of projects involved, 1975-8 214 13.1 EEC exports to selected country groups as a pro portion of total exports 239 13.2 The share of the ACPs in EEC exports of machin ery and transport equipment 240 13.3 Percentage share of EEC countries in EEC trade withtheACP 242 13.4 EEC multinationals and the ACP textile industry 244 13.5 ACP trade with the EEC as percentage of total ACPtrade 246
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