The Future of North American Trade Policy
Author: Kevin P. Gallagher
Publisher:
Published: 2009-11-30
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9780982568309
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NAFTA in Transition
Author: Stephen J. Randall
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1895176638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic, social, cultural and political dimensions of the evolving trilateral relationship among the three countries of North America. Contributors address such topics as energy, the environment, trade, labour, the maquiladora industrial sector of Mexico, the Mexican auto industry, and Canada - U.S. cultural relations.While other publications have focused on U.S. issues, this one emphasizes Canada and Mexico, yet adds significantly to our understanding of the place of the United States in this evolving trilateral relationship.
Eating NAFTA
Author: Alyshia Gálvez
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2018-09-18
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0520965442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMexican cuisine has emerged as a paradox of globalization. Food enthusiasts throughout the world celebrate the humble taco at the same time that Mexicans are eating fewer tortillas and more processed food. Today Mexico is experiencing an epidemic of diet-related chronic illness. The precipitous rise of obesity and diabetes—attributed to changes in the Mexican diet—has resulted in a public health emergency. In her gripping new book, Alyshia Gálvez exposes how changes in policy following NAFTA have fundamentally altered one of the most basic elements of life in Mexico—sustenance. Mexicans are faced with a food system that favors food security over subsistence agriculture, development over sustainability, market participation over social welfare, and ideologies of self-care over public health. Trade agreements negotiated to improve lives have resulted in unintended consequences for people’s everyday lives.
Ten Years into NAFTA and Its Lessons to Korea
Author: Youngmin Kwon
Publisher: 길잡이미디어
Published: 2006-12-27
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 8980314043
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NAFTA Revisited
Author: Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780881325591
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Author: Luis Serven
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2004-11-15
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0821383744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzing the experience of Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 'Lessons from NAFTA' aims to provide guidance to Latin American and Caribbean countries considering free trade agreements with the United States. The authors conclude that the treaty raised external trade and foreign investment inflows and had a modest effect on Mexico's average income per person. It is likely that the treaty also helped achieve a modest reduction in poverty and an improvement in job quality. This book will be of interest to scholars and policymakers interested in international trade and development.
NAFTA to USMCA: What is Gained?
Author: Mary E. Burfisher
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2019-03-26
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1498303285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States – Mexico – Canada Agreement (USMCA) was signed on November 30, 2018 and aims to replace and modernize the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This paper uses a global, multisector, computable-general-equilibrium model to provide an analytical assessment of five key provisions in the new agreement, including tighter rules of origin in the automotive, textiles and apparel sectors, more liberalized agricultural trade, and other trade facilitation measures. The results show that together these provisions would adversely affect trade in the automotive, textiles and apparel sectors, while generating modest aggregate gains in terms of welfare, mostly driven by improved goods market access, with a negligible effect on real GDP. The welfare benefits from USMCA would be greatly enhanced with the elimination of U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada and Mexico and the elimination of the Canadian and Mexican import surtaxes imposed after the U.S. tariffs were put in place.
The Impact of Trade Agreements
Author: Swarnali Ahmed Hannan
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2016-09-23
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 147554071X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has reinvigorated research on the ex-ante impact of trade agreements. The results from these ex-ante models are subject to considerable uncertainties, and needs to be complimented by ex-post studies. The paper fills this gap in recent literature by employing synthetic control methods (SCM) – currently extremely popular in micro and macro studies – to understand the impact of trade agreements in the period 1983–1995 for 104 country pairs. The key advantage of using SCM to address selection bias – one of the persisting issues in trade literature – is that it allows the effect of unobserved confounder to vary with time, as opposed to traditional econometric methods that can deal with time-invariant unobserved country characteristics. Using SCM approach, the paper finds that trade agreements can generate substantial gains, on average an increase of exports by 80 percentage points over ten years. The export gains are higher when emerging markets have trade agreements with advanced markets. The paper shows that all the countries in NAFTA have substantially gained due to NAFTA. Finally, there is some evidence that trade agreements can potentially lead to slight import diversion, but not export diversion.
United States and Mexico
Author: Emma Aguila
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: 2012-04-11
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780833051066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis binational reference for U.S. and Mexican policymakers presents the interrelated issues of Mexican immigration to the United States and Mexico's economic and social development. Differences in economic growth, wages, and the employment situation between two countries are critical determinants of immigration, and migration of labor out of Mexico, in addition to economic and social policies, affects Mexico's development.
The Underground Heart
Author:
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780816520343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe award-winning author returns to his roots in the Southwest, driving the highways of New Mexico and Texas, and writing about the changing landscape and a thriving and diverse border culture.
