Economic Integration In The Americas

Author : Joseph A. McKinney,H. Stephen Gardner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135977146

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Economic Integration in the Americas by Joseph A. McKinney,H. Stephen Gardner Pdf

This new book brings together contributions from recognized experts in trade policy, discussing and evaluating economic integration in the Western Hemisphere, the alternative trade strategies being pursued in this area and Latin American relationships with United States and Canada. These essays provide progress reports concerning the different regi

Author : Norris C. Clement
Publisher : Cheltenham [England] : Edward Elgar Pub.
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024919255

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North American Economic Integration by Norris C. Clement Pdf

This work explains the theoretical, historical and political background of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), covering its impact and the debates surrounding its existence. The authors also introduce the theory of economic integration and post-war economic management.

Author : Walter Krause,Ferdinand John Mathis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033950739

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Latin America and Economic Integration by Walter Krause,Ferdinand John Mathis Pdf

Study of the economic integration process in Latin America within the framework of the LAIA and the SIECA, impact thereof on economic development and the proposal to establish a region-wide Latin American common market (lacm) - covers trade agreements the role of GATT and UNCTAD and includes excerpts from the declaration of the presidents of American states made at punta del este in april 1967. Bibliography pp. 99 to 105 and statistical tables.

Author : Chad P. Bown,Daniel Lederman,Samuel Pienknagura,Raymond Robertson
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464809781

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Better Neighbors by Chad P. Bown,Daniel Lederman,Samuel Pienknagura,Raymond Robertson Pdf

This book proposes a renewal of 'Open Regionalism' in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) aimed at achieving the region's goals of high growth with stability. The LAC region experienced a growth spurt with equity during the first decade of the 21st Century. It is well understood that an unsustainable demand boom fueled by terms-of-trade improvements drove this growth acceleration episode, especially in South America. Unfortunately, terms of trade are no longer fueling growth, and the region’s policymakers are in search of new sources of growth with stability. With the experience of East Asia and the Pacific in mind, many policymakers in LAC are looking to international economic ties as a potential source of stable growth. The challenge highlighted in this book lies in designing an integration agenda comprising trade and factor market integration that is conducive to region-wide efficiency gains, which can help LAC enhance its global competitiveness. The forces of geography imply that pro-growth global integration cannot be achieved without building a strong neighborhood. Thus, this volume argues that LAC's regional economic integration agenda needs to go well beyond the current spaghetti bowl of preferential trading arrangements.

Author : Victor L. Urquidi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520313668

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Free Trade and Economic Integration in Latin America by Victor L. Urquidi Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.

Author : María Belén Olmos Giupponi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509904518

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Rethinking Free Trade, Economic Integration and Human Rights in the Americas by María Belén Olmos Giupponi Pdf

This 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.

Author : V. Bulmer-Thomas
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110373078

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Regional Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean by V. Bulmer-Thomas Pdf

This collection is a sober assessment of the state of regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean. It studies the question from four perspectives: economic, institutional, political, and in relation to the rest of the world. It considers the questions raised by LAC countries' efforts to use 'new' regionalism to address the challenges of globalization and to explore the nature and meaning of open regionalism. This thematic treatment draws on the experience of the different schemes currently in place in the region: NAFTA, CACM, CARICOM, the Andean Community and MERCOSUR. It also examines the nature of globalization, including concerns over the relationship between regionalism and the multilateral system. There is now a broad consensus among LAC countries that regional integration can help them adjust to the new world order, but there is much less agreement on how to achieve it and what reforms are needed to bring it about.

Author : Gordon Mace,Louis Bélanger
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1555877176

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The Americas in Transition by Gordon Mace,Louis Bélanger Pdf

The FTA, Mercosur, the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative, NAFTA, the Summit of the Americas - do these constitute building blocks in the construction of a new regional system? This book explores that question, offering an assessment of the state of regionalism in the Americas.

Author : William D. Coleman,Geoffrey D. Underhill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134716272

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Regionalism and Global Economic Integration by William D. Coleman,Geoffrey D. Underhill Pdf

This scholarly and interdisciplinary volume sheds much needed light on the realtionship between national policies, regional integration patterns and the wider global setting. It covers regional patterns in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Individual chapters focus on topics ranging from industrial or financial policies to social welfare regimes, as well as broader assessments and comparisons of regional arrangements in a global context. The chapters point to the diversity of regional patterns in the world economy and the continuing importance of national regulatory structures, yet they also point to the common pressures of globalisation felt by all, especially in the domain of capital markets. With broad coverage and clear but sophisticated analysis this new book will be vital reading to all those seeking to clarify their understanding of the contemporary regional/global paradox.

Author : Royce Q. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429726767

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Central America Integrat/h by Royce Q. Shaw Pdf

This study challenges several widely held assumptions about Central American economic integration, arguing that the key to understanding the failure of the integration program lies in neither advanced economic nor regional integration theory, but in the domestic politics of the states involved. Thus, the author contends that the Common Market was not the cause of the balance-of-payments and balanced-growth crises in Central America; rather, domestic political forces were the major factor in the collapse of the market and the subsequent attempts at restructuring. Professor Shaw disputes the standard interpretations of the role of the technocrats in the integration process and demonstrates that the domestic political elites played an important role throughout. He also challenges the assumption that economic integration is always a force for conciliation, pointing out that the Common Market aggravated some of the conflicts that led to war between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. Nor are integration programs among less developed countries necessarily instruments of political and social change, according to this analysis; on the contrary, political elites used the Common Market to bypass the internal economic reforms necessary for national development. This study incorporates new material—interview data and other primary source material—on events of the past eight years.

Author : Shoji Nishijima
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429720352

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Cooperation Or Rivalry? by Shoji Nishijima Pdf

This book examines two opposing interpretations of NAFTAs potential expansion into a Western Hemisphere Free Trade Association (WHFTA)one fearing the creation of a deliberately exclusionary Fortress America, the other welcoming the prospect of substantial economic opportunities for Asia and the countries of the Pacific Rim. Contributors evaluate the commercial, financial, cultural, and political linkages between the Americas and the Pacific Rim, assessing the magnitude of interests that might be affected by NAFTA or FTAA. }Authorities and experts in Japan and other Asian countries have expressed considerable fear that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) will create a Fortress America that will deliberately exclude nations of the Pacific Rim. Others argue that economic integration will provide substantial opportunity for Asia/Pacific countries and thus contribute to the dynamism of the Pacific Century ahead. This book explores the varying interpretations and looks at their implications for countries of the Pacific Rim. Might NAFTA provoke the formation of an economic bloc in the Asia/Pacific area? Or will economic liberalization occur on a global and multilateral scale? What are the political dimensions of these possible options and processes? Examining the interconnections such policy alternatives may have for both the Pacific Rim and Latin America, the contributors evaluate the commercial, financial, cultural, and political linkages between the regions to assess the magnitude of interests that might be affected by NAFTA or FTAA. Assessing the range of policy options available to countries involved, they seek to make an original contribution to the debate about the formation and structure of the post Cold War world order

Author : Sidney Weintraub,Alan M. Rugman,Gavin Boyd
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845420666

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Free Trade in the Americas by Sidney Weintraub,Alan M. Rugman,Gavin Boyd Pdf

This book examines the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), an ambitious venture in regional market integration which builds on the principles of the North American Free Trade Agreement. It assesses the long-term corporate and public policy measures to cope with the increased monetary, fiscal and structural interdependence that will be required if the benefits of the FTAA are to be realized. The contributors suggest that with enlightened US leadership and the cooperation of Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, the FTAA could eventually match the EU in the world economy and as a multilateral leader. Initiatives to promote a culture of relational cooperation in a system of liberalized global commerce are stressed. In Latin America, there is an urgent need for such cooperation in order to enhance the region s lackluster growth rate and reduce the occurrences and severity of financial crises. The United States, Canada and Mexico will also benefit from the development of dynamic structural links with their regional neighbours. The authors highlight the importance for US policy initiatives to be complemented by constructive and harmonious corporate collaborations. This spirit of alliance capitalism will help ensure the FTAA promotes social justice as well as economic efficiency. This fully integrated volume, written by leading specialists in the field, will become an indispensable source for analysis of the prospects and role of the FTAA in the global economy. It will be warmly welcomed by informed readers such as international business experts, bankers, corporate executives, economists dealing with fiscal and monetary integration, and those interested in Latin American business.

Author : Jeffrey McKelvey Ayres,Laura Macdonald
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442611146

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North America in Question by Jeffrey McKelvey Ayres,Laura Macdonald Pdf

Can North America survive as a region in light of the political turbulence provoked by the global economic crisis? Or have regional integration and collaboration reached a plateau beyond which disintegration is likely? In North America in Question, leading analysts from Canada, the United States, and Mexico provide theoretically innovative and rich empirical reflections on current challenges sweeping the continent and on the faltering political support for North American regionalism. This collection begins by reviewing the recent trajectories and events that have undermined North America's trilateral relationship, then addresses concerns that go beyond NAFTA and economic issues, including labour, immigration, energy, the environment, quality of citizenship, borders, women's and civil society struggles, and democratic deficits. Although demonstrating that many informal dimensions of North American integration continue to flourish, the contributors assess whether the future will hold greater economic instability, security crises, and emerging bilateral relationships.

Author : Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Free trade
ISBN : UCSD:31822021359864

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Continental Accord by Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.) Pdf

Author : University of Miami. North-South Center
Publisher : New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822018972091

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Integrating the Americas by University of Miami. North-South Center Pdf

Bold new economic policies are supplanting traditional notions about the relationship between national and international markets throughout Latin America. Regional integration and neoliberal reforms have combined to overturn more traditional approaches to national development in the region. This volume captures the content of these changes and analyzes their implications for the Western Hemisphere.