IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/idb/brikps/3814.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Breaking from Isolation: Suriname's Participation in Regional Integration Initiatives

Author

Listed:
  • Jessen, Anneke
  • Katona, Andrew

Abstract

This paper discusses Suriname's efforts in regional integration initiatives, starting in the 1990s. In the first section, the authors identify some concrete initiatives undertaken by Suriname to broaden and diversify its economic links, and highlight the many barriers that remain to be overcome in that area. Next, they examine, from a theoretical point of view, the costs and benefits of regional integration, which have been one of the key components of Suriname's increasingly outward-oriented development agenda. Subsequent sections provide a more detailed analysis of Suriname's recent integration efforts, and how these may influence its future development prospects. It is the authors' contention that by adopting the tenets of "open regionalism", Suriname has embarked on an effective process of global market integration, which will both shield it from --and gradually prepare it for-- the harsh adjustments of full-blown international competition.

Suggested Citation

  • Jessen, Anneke & Katona, Andrew, 2001. "Breaking from Isolation: Suriname's Participation in Regional Integration Initiatives," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 3814, Inter-American Development Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:idb:brikps:3814
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Breaking-from-Isolation-Suriname-Participation-in-Regional-Integration-Initiatives.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:idb:brikps:3814. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Felipe Herrera Library (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/iadbbus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.