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The book release featured remarks by:
José Antonio Ocampo Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs United Nations |
“One of the very interesting contributions of this book is that it tries to make the point that the agenda for regional institutions is much broader than we have usually thought of.” | |
The Honorable Knut Vollebaek Norwegian Ambassador to the |
“The book launched today underlines that the global and individual country perspective somehow neglects the regional level. This constitutes a very unfortunate gap in our perspectives and approaches. I am, therefore, very happy to see that this book has been written, making the convincing case that regionalism done right does not undermine multilateral agreements. To the contrary, regional initiatives and processes have the potential to stimulate global action and poverty reduction.” | |
Paulo Fernando Gomes Executive Director, Africa Group Two World Bank |
“[Y]ou did an excellent job in building a strong framework for understanding the challenge of regional integration, the use of regional arrangements, the trade issues, the public goods, and I think it's a very good platform for someone to understand the issues and the challenges on the regionalism.” |