A Central American Triptych

One way of going about the analysis of regional integration processes is exemplified by Nugent's Economic Integration in Central America. From the outset the study limits itself by explicitly "excluding considerations that are primarily 'political' or 'social' in nature and by confining. . . [the analysis] to the macroeconomic level, thereby leaving to future researchers the tasks of explaining the effects of economic integration on economic structure and on the distribution of income and wealth among individuals and groups, etc." Since one of the objectives stated in the preface is that of assessing "the impact of the Central American Common Market (CACM) on each of the economies of the region," many readers might have expected the impact of integration on the economies of the region to include just such things as the items excluded, such as changes in economic structure, income distribution, and the like. The few paragraphs of the concluding chapter that touch, somewhat obliquely, on these issues do not reverse the author's announced intention to disregard them in his analysis

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