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What's New in the New Regionalism in the Americas?
Estevadeordal, Antoni; Devlin, Robert - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001
The centrifugal forces of economic globalization in the 1990's ran parallel with centripetal forces of regionalization. While seemingly pulling in opposite directions, the two forces reflected complementary dimensions of dynamic capitalist market development. The completion of the Uruguay Round...
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Regional Banks and Regionalism: A New Frontier for Development Financing
Devlin, Robert; Castro, Lucio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
The 1990s witnessed the parallel forces of globalization and regionalization strongly at work. While seemingly contradictory, they are in fact complementary aspects of market development. This paper will focus on the latter, and its special aspects of regionalism; i.e., policy driven regional...
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¿Qué hay de Nuevo en el Nuevo Regionalismo en las Américas?
Estevadeordal, Antoni; Devlin, Robert - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001
corriente de asociación en la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) fue acompañada por una situación en la cual los esquemas … libre comercio recíproco, que sumaron alrededor de veinte. Estas tendencias fueron acompañadas por un promedio de … crecimiento fuerte del comercio internacional en los años noventa y un aumento marcado del comercio intrarregional. Este trabajo …
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The New Regionalism in the Americas: The Case of MERCOSUR
Estevadeordal, Antoni; Goto, Junichi; Saez, Raul - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
This paper takes seriously the recent claim made by Ethier [1998] that the "New Regionalism" reflects the success of the multilateral trading system, not its failure. In fact, the New Regionalism represents a qualitative departure of the old regionalism in several respects, in particular, its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944395
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El ALCA y la OMC: Especulaciones en torno a su interacción
Granados, Jaime - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
en que la Organización Mundial de Comercio (OMC) ha adquirido un perfil tan alto, ha hecho que se vuelque la atención en …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943831
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The Trade and Cooperation Nexus: How Does the MERCOSUR-EU Process Measure Up?
Estevadeordal, Antoni; Krivonos, Ekaterina; Devlin, Robert - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
The objective of this study is to analyze the interaction between trade and non-trade cooperation in some of the today's major regional initiatives, particularly those between developing and industrialized countries. The study suggests a framework to explore what the paper calls a "trade and...
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A New Push for Regional Infrastructure Development in South America
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2000
This study was undertaken in response to a request from the government of Brazil that the Inter-American Development Bank support the analysis of infrastructure integration in South America at the level of the region¿s highest authorities. The request was made in light of the convening of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711632
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Un Nuevo Impulso a la Integración de la Infraestructura Regional en América del Sur
Inter-American Development Bank; Banco Interamericano … - 2000
La preparación del presente estudio responde a una solicitud efectuada al Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo por parte del Gobierno de la República Federativa de Brasil para apoyar el análisis de la problemática de la integración de la infraestructura en América del Sur a nivel de las más...
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Is Export Promotion Effective in Developing Countries? Firm-Level Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Exports
Martincus, Christian Volpe; Carballo, Jerónimo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
How effective are export promotion activities in developing countries? What are the channels through which export promotion affects firms' exports, the intensive margin or the extensive margin? Empirical evidence in this respect is scarce. We aim at filling this gap in the literature by...
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Trade Facilitation: What, Why, How, Where and When?
Dee, Philippa; Findlay, Christopher - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
This paper surveys recent developments in the literature on trade facilitation, defined broadly as reform of non-tariff barriers. The paper looks at what trade facilitation is, why it matters, how to measure it, the gains from reform, and ways to implement it at the global, regional and...
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