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El término globalidad económica se viene utilizando en los últimos años desde distintas corrientes del pensamiento económico y en las propuestas políticas, sin embargo, bajo esta expresión se manejan acepciones de muy distinto contenido con exigencias para el análisis económico muy diversas.

The aim of this paper is to provide a global vision about the evolution of the international trade theory, and its influence on the economic integration theory in its original version. The analysis deals with the development of the inter-industrial trade and its partition in terms of qualities. Moreover, this study tries to overcome the empirical weakness on trade creation and trade diversion as a consequence of customs unions.

Economic globalisation is used by different trends of economic thought and by different political proposition. However, this expression has very different understanding and implications depending on economics analysis. This paper contains some of the more usual meaning of economic globalisation and it introduces initial empirical evidence of this globalisation on trade, investment and incomes on the world economy.

This article addresses the process of reform that the European Union is implementing in its system of foreign relations with the Mediterranean Basin and its implications for the Maghreb Arab Union. To this end, we have outlined the main characteristics of the dynamics and fissures in today's international scene, in which the processes of regionalisation play an important role.

In this paper we propose a structural model to explain the behaviour of Central American socioeco-nomic systems. This model has been done from an abstraction of Costa Rican case. The implementation of the reformist development model in Costa Rica, that is the same as most of Latin American countries have, has caused a structural change in this socioeconomic system. This can be observed mainly in the change of structural relationship or laws.