This document is a synthesis of the region's most pertinent top priorities, of achievements undergone during recent years, and of the challenges and opportunities the region will face in the near future.

The countries in Mesoamerica have achieved major advances in the field of environmental management over the last ten years. Both Mexico and the Central American nations have put a whole series of legal, institutional, and operating changes in place with regard to environmental management, both...

This report is a case study aimed at shedding some light on the magnitude and determinants of Brazil's exporting costs. Two exporting firms were selected to provide information on these costs: one exports primary goods (soybeans), while the other exports manufactured goods (agricultural...

Western countries have established themselves and developed over the last two centuries in the model of the Nation-State, founded on national sovereignty.

Second Meeting of the Finance Minister of the Americas and the Caribbean

During the past few decades, the landscape of the world economy has changed. New trade patterns reflect the globalization of the supply chain and intra-industry trade, and increasing flows between neighboring countries and trading blocs with similar factor endowments. Similarly, the approach to...

This presentation was commissioned by the Trade and Integration Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the IV Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on September 17th and 18th, 2002. Challenges of Trade Diplomacy. Emergency dialogue over Trade Policy.

This paper discusses the relationship between various global trends and national tax system.

This document was commissioned by the Environment Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the I Hemispheric Meeting, celebrated on April 4th and 5th, 2002. Objectives of the Environmental Management Executive Profiles. To identify and characterize the main environmental problems of the...

This paper will discuss the use of instruments that promote social protection. It then will assess the impact that globalization, in all its manifestations, might have on these instruments.