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The Proposed U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement [PDF]

, 2010
[Excerpt] The proposed U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, also called the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CFTA), was signed by the United States and Colombia on November 22, 2006.
Angeles Villarreal, M
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Identifying supply-side constraints to export performance in Ecuador : an exercise with Investment Climate Survey data [PDF]

The authors apply a Heckman selection model to the 2003 Investment Climate Survey (ICS) to investigate supply-side constraints to export performance at the firm level in Ecuador.
Correa, Paulo, Dayoub, Mariam, Francisco, Manuela   +2 more
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Trade Logistics and Regional Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]

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 ...
Galarza, Sebastián, Guerrero, Pablo, Lucenti, Krista   +2 more
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CAN- The future of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) 2000-2010

, 2011
This paper evaluates the process of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) during the ten years between 2000-2010, and describes possible scenarios in 2020. It is assumed that the CAN does not have to consolidate the political status, being the crossroads of conflicting national socio-political projects.
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Adaptive Livelihoods in Andean Pastoralism: Community-Based Institutions, Peatland Management, and Migration in Sajama National Park, Bolivia

Mountain Research and Development
This article examines livelihood practices among Indigenous Aymara pastoral communities in Sajama National Park (SNP) on the Bolivian Altiplano. Pastoralist livelihoods within SNP are based on the management of Andean camelids—llamas (Lama glama) and alpacas (Vicugna pacos)—and the high-elevation peatlands, known locally as bofedales, that provide ...
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Farmers' rights and protection of traditional agricultural knowledge: [PDF]

"Although achieving in situ conservation is possible without changing farmers' customary management of crops as common pool resources, an alternative approach is to negotiate a bioprospecting contract with providers of the resource that involves direct ...
Brush, Stephen B.
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Enhancing the Role of Regional Development Banks [PDF]

There are a number of important reasons why lending by regional or sub-regional development banks can and should play an important and valuable complementary role in the international development architecture.
Dagmar Hertova, David Griffith-Jo, Stephany Griffith-Joneswith   +2 more
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Cyclic Fluctuations in a free trade area: the case of the Andean Community of Nations

, 2007
Le principal objectif de ce travail de recherche est d'analyser de façon intégrale les fluctuations économiques de court et moyen terme dans la Communauté Andine des Nations (Bolivie, Colombie, Equateur, Pérou et Venezuela). Dans un premier temps nous analysons les similitudes cycliques entre les différents pays andins ; dans ce sens, l'intérêt est ...
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From gene to plate in Indonesia: a food system framework for the triple burden of malnutrition. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Octavia L, Nirmala IR.
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Regional strategy: Andean Community of Nations, 2002-2006 [PDF]

, 2001

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