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‘Mercosur is a good idea, badly implemented’ and not much of a ‘market’
Mercosur (Common market of the South) is a good idea, badly implemented, and it does not have much of “common” and much less of a “market” argues Professor Andres Malamud, researcher at the Lisbon University Social Sciences currently on a lecture tour in Paraguay. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesMalamud said strongly: “no, Brazil is big but not sufficiently large and above all its economy is relatively competitive and not complementary. Its two main export items are soy beans and iron-ore
Mar 01st, 2011 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That information is false. Are Portuguese people really that ignorant or is it just jealousy at their old colony that is out growing them. I suspect both.
9 th paragraph :
Mar 01st, 2011 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ We must remember.........................needs greater inter-dependency”
hoh ! we haven't seen the success of EU but see it's deterioration !
Yul , Germany
He's right that Paraguay is condemned to Mercosur, and that the economies of Mercosur are too competitive and not complimentary enough, BUT he's wrong saying that Mercosur can't be a union as Europe is. He's also wrong saying that Brazil's not large enough, it's growing well, and is well on it's way to being large enough.
Mar 01st, 2011 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0hoh ! we haven't seen the success of EU but see it's deterioration !
Mar 01st, 2011 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Neither have I seen the success of the EU..only failures and bank bailouts.
Holland, small town Alphen aan den Rijn.
You guys don't take criticism well do you ?
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 01:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0You guys don't take criticism well do you ?
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 02:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sure why not, so long it make sense. And if you do a little bit your homework in a subject you are interested, you will find out that what he said (according to mercopress), about certain subjects, aren't correct at all.
It may well depend on the quality of reporting. As for homework, from his web page -
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 03:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0” ... I am a research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) of the University of Lisbon. A graduate of the Department of Political Science of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), I earned my doctorate in political and social sciences from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence.
My research interests focus on regional integration, comparative institutions and parties, and Latin American politics.
I have coined the concept of inter-presidentialism to account for the development of regional integration in the absence of regional institutions. The argument is that, in some regional organizations, domestic institutions have sustained presidential diplomacy as main mechanism of region-building.
As regards Mercosur, I have documented a growing gap between rhetoric and achievement. I argue that one reason underlying this phenomenon is a misunderstanding of the European experience with integration.
I have studied subnational, national and supranational legislatures in diverse contexts. Some of my findings show that there is little diversity both regarding bicameralism across Argentine provinces and party behavior within the Buenos Aires province legislature. In other respect, I contend that labeling Latin American supranational assemblies as 'parliaments' incurs in gross conceptual stretching.
Against conventional wisdom, I contend that Argentine party politics exhibit more continuity than change. This is due to a combination of institutional design (mainly federalism, malapportionment and staggered elections) and party strategies (successful electoral adaptation with dissimilar adaptation to government)...”
http://www.eui.eu/Personal/Researchers/malamud/
What a load of shit..
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 08:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0There is not a lot that is unable to substantiated in the analysis. It is therefore far from beig 'shit', as our erudite young commentator puts it (#8).
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 03:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Competition within Mercosur is a primary concern, especially as the big players have their own vested interested interests in 'playing outside the club' and its rules.
Paraguay holds a card that it is playing, the danegeld that Chavez must pay to join the club.
Chavez has vested interests in radicalizing Mercosur, moving it away from a true market of the commons. Argentina and Brasil make the right radical noises in support of Chavez but are scared silly about what he might do to Mercosur's developing structures and developing philosophy. Chavez's willingness to take over foreign companies that he does not like is just one of these.
Much more to say, bnut later.
Pfff..GeoffWard, dude, stop with your Glenn Beck wannabe nonsense here.
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 08:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Paraguay holds a card that it is playing, the danegeld that Chavez must pay to join the club.”
Lol, You're a real kool-aid drinker.
#8 What a load of shit..”
Yes it is. Mr Malamud should be more concerned about bailing out of Portugal. Portugal is the paraguay ( a corrupt begger nation) of Europe that is stuck to the EU.
Glen Beck ................. who he?
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 10:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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