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Baldwin, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

Regional liberalization sweeps the globe like wildfire while multilateral trade talks proceed at a glacial pace. Why are countries eager to liberalize regionally but reluctant to do so multilaterally? The answer of the GATT-is-dead school is that multilateralism is too cumbersome for...

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Economic Integration and Manufacturing Concentration Patterns: Evidence from MERCOSUR

Traistaru-Siedschlag, Iulia; Martincus, Christian - In: Open Economies Review 17 (2006) 3, pp. 297-319

Over the past two decades, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay have implemented unilateral trade liberalization programs and formed MERCOSUR. The effects of these reforms on production structures in these countries have not received a great deal of attention. This paper analyses patterns of...

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Economic integration and manufacturing concentration patterns: Evidence from Mercosur

Traistaru, Iulia; Volpe Martincus, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 2003

Trade policy changes are likely to result in a reallocation of resources across sectors and space. Over the past two decades, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay have implemented unilateral trade liberalization programs and formed a regional bloc, Mercosur. The effects of these reforms on...

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The 'new regionalism' and foreign direct investment: the case of Mexico

Waldkirch, Andreas - In: The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development 12 (2003) 2, pp. 151-184

TradeAgreement (NAFTA), a prime example of this new regionalism, on foreign direct investment in Mexico. Using data from the Mexican … Ministry for Trade and Industrial Development (SECOFI), the major finding is that NAFTA has raised investment from the partner …

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Topics in the Economics of Integration in the Americas - Introduction

Schiff, Maurice - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 40 (2003) 121, pp. 441-441

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Trade Liberalization and Inequality in Canada in the 1990s

Schwanen, Daniel - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in particular on the question of whether liberalized trade could...

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Identifying National and International Vacuums Potentially Impacting NAFTA and Indigenous Peoples

Phillips, Valerie J. - In: Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 02 (2001) 2

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was made among three nation-states, Canada, the United States, and …, and political histories which cross the borders of these countries. Within the provisions of NAFTA, each nation … NAFTA as well as the economic interests of indigenous peoples. This paper identifies some of those vacuums, considers their …

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National Treatment and American Foreign Policy - The Evolution of National Treatment Approaches in International Trade

Kucherepa, Peter - In: Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 07 (2006) 1

The National Treatment Clause, Article 1102 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, protects foreign investors from discrimination, including expropriation of their investments. This national treatment approach - equal treatment of foreign investors and local investors by states - was...

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NORTH AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL MARKET INTEGRATION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE FOOD AND FIBER SYSTEM

Vollrath, Thomas L. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2003

economic forces of supply and demand. Ratification of NAFTA, for example, helped integrate the North American market, sparking … integrate the continental market seem to have slowed. Broadening the scope of NAFTA to include institutional reforms that lead …

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Gender Impacts of U.S. Immigration Policies

Richter, Susan M.; Taylor, J. Edward; Yunez-Naude, Antonio - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

Using Mexican survey data, a dynamic econometric model is estimated to test the effect of IRCA, NAFTA and border …

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