Comercio e integración en las Américas
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Publisher: IICA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9789290394419
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Hacia el Libre Comercio en las Americas
Author: Jose Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780815716808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Brookings Institution Press and the Organization of American States publication This is the Spanish language version of Toward Free Trade in America. In the past 15 years, the nations of the Western Hemisphere have staged a remarkable revolution—in the way they trade with their neighbors. First, after decades of restrictive import policies, several countries began to liberalize their trade and investment regimes. Then, beginning a decade ago, numerous bilateral and sub-regional trade agreements were achieved, to serve as vital complements to domestic reforms and to foster trade flows among member countries. At the Second Summit of the Americas in 1998, negotiations among 34 democracies were launched to establish the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This report takes stock of the remarkable progress to date in the development of free trade in the Western Hemisphere. It examines trade flows between countries in the same regional groupings and between members of different sub-regional arrangements. The report describes the main characteristics of the trade arrangements signed between countries of the Hemisphere and explores the development of trade rules in these arrangements. Finally, the report details recent advances in the construction of the FTAA.
Western Hemisphere Economic Integration
Author: Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780881321593
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Thorough analysis of processes and consequences of proposals for extending NAFTA throughout the Western Hemisphere ; seeks to assess both economic and political consequences of several avenues that might be followed, including impact on the global trading system"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas.
The Politics of Regional Integration in Latin America
Author: O. Dabène
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-08-31
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0230100740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the widely admitted failure of regional integration in this continent, linking the features of regional institutional arrangements with domestic politics and includes an inquiry into regionalism at the hemispherical level.
Latin America 1810-2010
Author: Claude Auroi
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 569
ISBN-13: 1848168470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book analyses present Latin American issues in their historical course since independence (beginning 1810) and its aftermath, up to the contemporary period. The authors focus on political, economic, social, environmental and cultural developments. It examines the legacies of the past and the multiple changes that have taken place in the last two centuries. Today''s situation suggests that modernization is well under way and will continue. Offering broad insight into present and future concerns, the book enables readers to evaluate potential areas of economic and social growth, as well as assess risks stemming from past events.
Forum for the Americas on Agricultural research and technology development: FORAGRO Plan of action 2003-2004 (POA)
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Publisher: IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
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Total Pages: 46
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRethinking Free Trade, Economic Integration and Human Rights in the Americas
Author: María Belén Olmos Giupponi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-01-26
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1509904514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monograph offers the first systematic overview of the protection of human rights in trade agreements in the Americas. Traditionally, trade agreements in the Americas were concerned with economic questions and paid little attention to human rights. However, in the wake of the 'new regionalism', which emerged at the end of the last century, more clauses addressing social issues such as labour rights and environmental standards were inserted in trade agreements. As economic integration increased, a framework for the protection of human rights evolved. This book argues that this framework allows for human rights protection on a transnational level, while constructing regional identities. Looking at the four key regional integration processes, namely the Caribbean Community, the Central American Integration System, the Andean Community of Nations and the Southern Common Market, and also at the North American Free Trade Agreement, it shows how the integration process has reached a considerable degree of consolidation. Writing on key sources in English for the first time, this book will be essential reading for all free trade and human rights scholars.
Latin American and Caribbean Trade Agreements
Author: Thomas Andrew O'Keefe
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 900416488X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatin American and Caribbean Trade Agreements: Keys to a Prosperous Community of the Americas is the essential reference guide for companies trading with Latin America and the Caribbean or wishing to use a country in the region as an export platform. This work fills the void in academic texts that are used to teach courses on economic integration in the Western Hemisphere. It provides a road map for the Obama Administration to launch an ambitious project designed to encourage economic growth, promote energy security, and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions, while at the same time realistically meeting the development needs of Latin America and the Caribbean. Latin American and Caribbean Trade Agreements: Keys to a Prosperous Community of the Americas posits that the myopic focus of past United States administrations on free markets to spur economic development in the Western Hemisphere is not enough. A bolder and more ambitious project that also seeks to redress many of the deep-seated problems that have long plagued the region is required. The Community of the Americas proposed in this book rests upon the important work that has already been done at the sub-regional level in terms of economic and political reform, identifying infrastructure and human capital needs, and regulating migration. It provides a new and cohesive vision for U.S. policy in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Central American report number 3 : 2004-2006 (Subregional Integration Report Series. MCCA = Serie Informes Subregionales de Integración. MCCA; 3)
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Publisher: BID-INTAL
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Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 950738264X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Politics of Central American Integration
Author: Rafael A. Sánchez Sánchez
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-12-20
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 1135843449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its inception in the 1960s to the regional negotiations in the 1990s and onwards, Central American integration has been a process characterized by both dramatic advances and setbacks. This book provides a theoretical explanation of this ebb and flow, examining different stages including the military conflicts of the 1980s, the subsequent Esquipulas peace process, and the relaunch of integration during the 1990s under the System of Central American Integration (SICA). Sánchez Sánchez's analysis focuses on the policies and preferences of the larger states of the region, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala, and argues that integration relies on intergovernmental bargaining. Interviews, historical and comparative data are presented in a format invaluable for students and teachers concerned with comparative regional integration, as well as for those seeking a greater understanding of contemporary Central American regional and international politics and development.
