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The FTAA and the Location of FDI? [PDF]

open access: possible, 2003
The role of regional integration agreements (RIAs) as a determinant of the location of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has become an increasingly relevant issue for emerging economies. While the concerns regarding the impact of RIAs on FDI for countries in Latin America may be related to a number of RIA initiatives of different types (sub regional ...
Levy Yeyati, Eduardo   +2 more
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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN THE FTAA

2002
Paper presented at the 24th West Indies Agricultural Economics Conference, Granada, July 19-12, 2002. Environmental issues have become important in trade agreement negotiations. NAFTA explicitly includes environmental provisions and they are affecting ongoing WTO and FTAA negotiations.
Colyer, Dale, Colyer, Dale
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The FTAA Negotiations

2015
This chapter will provide a history of the negotiations with a particular focus on the evolution of the growing crisis of authority in the Americas. Tracing the history of the negotiations will enable an analysis of what took place during the decade in which the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) was negotiated in view of Gramsci’s concepts of ...
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FTAA Negotiations: Short Overview

Journal of International Economic Law, 2003
As the year 2005 approaches, negotiations of what would be the largest free trade area on the globe, the FTAA, are entering the phase that will determine the architecture of Western Hemisphere trade. The underlying question in this article is the degree of trade liberalization that the FTAA could reach.
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Brazil and the FTAA Negotiations

2015
Brazil may not have been as radical as Venezuela in its disposition toward the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), but its structural strength in the hemisphere meant that it nonetheless had a determining role in shaping the negotiations and their eventual collapse.
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The FTAA Negotiations

2011
For about a decade, from 1994 until 2004, the FTAA project mobilized human and financial resources throughout the Americas as countries prepared the ground for negotiations. Still, those efforts were insufficient to overcome the lack of political commitment by the cochairs of the negotiations, the United States and Brazil, to transform the project into
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Labour rights in the FTAA

2006
Excerpt] Without an overall trade agreement containing stronger labour rights linkage than that of the NAALC model, advocates will have no central forum or mechanism for dealing with workers' rights in the Americas. This paper suggests that labour rights advocates can and should shape a new viable social dimension in hemispheric trade and demand its ...
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Current Developments in the FTAA

Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics, 2001
Negotiating a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) continues to be a challenging undertaking because it anticipates integrating 34 countries, which differ substantially in size of population, gross domestic product (GDP) and land area and between which there is a significant difference in levels of development.
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