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Article: Regional integration and cooperation in West Africa: a multidimensional perspective.(Review)
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- Africa
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- January 1, 2000
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REAL LAVERGNE (ed.), Regional Integration and Cooperation in West Africa: a multidimensional perspective. Trenton NJ, Asmara and Ottawa: Africa World Press and International Development Research Centre, 1997, 352 pp., 14.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 86543 567 7.
This unique study of the problems and prospects of the integration project in West Africa is divided into three broad sections: `Strategic visions and prospects', `Economic perspectives' and `Political dimensions' comprising sixteen concise chapters, many of them originally papers given at the January 1993 Dakar conference on regional integration. Lavergne provides an insightful critique of the state of ...