중미경제통합의 한계와 과제

Abstract

Central American economic integration is a good case study field for small, underdeveloped countries trying to cope with the globalization of production and regionalization of the world trade. Despite their initial success in improving economic performances through the subregional integration, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and EI Salvador saw their 1960s' efforts to integrate under the Central American Common Market(CACM) scheme being deadlocked as early as late in the decade and finally fail principally because of industrial structural contradiction between their agricultural bases and industrial projects, unbalanced distribution of integration benefits among the five CACM member countries, and sociopolitical and international factors which negatively influenced on their possibly self-determined policymaking.