Les spécificités des groupements d'intégration entre pays développés et pays en développement

Following the trade agreements and the associations initiated by the most advanced countries over the past two decades, there have been changes with regard to local integration involving the bringing closer of unevenly developed countries. To what extent will the specificity of such grouping bear consequences of the process, methods and effects of this North/South, East/West integration ? A close analysis of these agreements shows that they are based on imbalances which are characteristic of mixed integration patterns. Cooperation with more developed countries aims at fostering a better integration of developing countries into the international, economic and monetary community as well as their adaptation to the progress of multi-lateralism, in an environment characterized by the ?triadisation? and a falling aid to development programmes.