Annex B. Cross-Border Economic Co-operation in Chihuahua

Over the course of the past decades, there have been various forms of cross-border development programmes in different parts of the world. They include, among others, the European Territorial Co-operation (formerly called the INTERREG programmes) launched in the European Union (EU), the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle (IMS-GT, formerly entitled the “Singapore-Johor-Riau Growth Triangle”), the Greater Tumen Initiative (GTI, formerly known as the Tumen River Area Development Programme, or TRADP), China’s Special Economic Zones (SEZs), and the US-Mexico Border Industrialisation Programme (BIP) (called “maquiladoras” in Mexico). The creation and organisation of these cross-border development programmes have provided many valuable times-series data and other specific information. Obviously, this will help scholars and practitioners involved in cross-border co-operation to assess the effectiveness of such instruments, and eventually derive useful policy implications.