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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Integration

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Generally, the disparity implies inconsistency of the development potentials or rates of certain system components. Uneven socio-economic development in turn is seen as an objective basis for the emergence of various kinds of imbalances. Moreover, failures and weaknesses of the economic policy, of the strategy and of the reform process also can be identified as its subjective factors. Studies of the inter-regional differences dynamics are based on the growth models, including the various factors such as the human capital development, the production structure, migration specifics, investment, terms of trade, and political stability. Among the set of factors, particular place is given to those that are generated by the phenomenon of integration. …show more content…

Thus, the establishment of economic and monetary union and the introduction of the single currency and the ECB have become a part of an ambitious project, which, however, has never been completed due to lack of fiscal union. Also, one of the main reasons for a permanent disproportion in development is the unwillingness of Member States to transfer their own sovereign powers for creating a single supranational independent institution for the purpose of a single economic policy. In fact, the EU combines the different types of economy, which remains independent and managed by Member States. In the context of the existence of a single supranational monetary policy pursued by an independent institution - the ECB - the state, first of all, denied the so-called monetary mechanism allowing both the strengthen of the economic reforms effects, and the reducing of their imperfections. At the same time the single monetary policy is conducted without regard to differences in levels of development and in the economy structures of the euro area countries. One of the consequences of such political incoordination was the accumulation of public debt and growing fiscal deficits within the euro area, which average index has increased from 83.8 % in 2011 to 92.0% in …show more content…

The problem of imbalances comes to the fore, since weaker in the economic context States remains unable to influence the euro indicators, so the lack of coordinated policies, at best, minimizes the effectiveness of the economic reforms, at worst - completely neutralize them. At the time, it acted as a prerequisite for so-called Grexit discussion, considering that a way out of the EU and as a consequence the return of the drachma would enable Greece to return the monetary policy mechanism in its own jurisdiction. Thereby, it should be noted that, low levels of development imply greater difficulty in locally providing the finding sources to finance the growth programmers needed to reduce the gap between the most- and the least-favored areas in the EU. Under such circumstances, the elimination of imbalances is an objective necessity the economy and society, one of the laws of any development and ensuring the growth of the integral index of the system even under invariable

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