THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF THE ECONOMIC INTEGRATION OF ANDINO GROUP: AN ANALYSIS OF THE INTRAREGIONAL COMMERCE OF AGRICULTURAL SECTOR

Abstract

This article presents reflections about the methodological focus to visualise the costs and benefits arising from the inter-region business of the Latin-American integration experience, more specifically the "Andino-Group". The analysis discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the existent methods, like the agreement system of the implicit transferences supposed to obey the Integration Economic Theory for the countries in development So, as a result of this process, we can see the costs and benefits distribution in the agro-cattle breeding of the Andino-Group within the period of 1975 to 1987.