The role of women in economic development

Abstract

Before considering the subject here proposed, one has to observe that there are actually many factors which facilitate the creation of links among the populations of the Mediterranean area and among the countries where such populations live. These factors have a political and economic basis and now they are extending to the defense systems. It is not new that somebody speaks about a "new Helsinki" in the Mediterranean which could reproduce, in a certain way, the complex system elaborated in twenty years by the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. One has to add to these observations the fact that there is a trend within the European Union to expand itself towards the Mediterranean area in order to enable associated member states to acquire full membership of the Union. On the other hand, the tendency towards international regionalism which characterises this era, represents a phenomenon in expansion which can yield good results in this part of the world from all the aspects here mentioned.