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Caribbean Tourism and the FTAA

2017
Ian Boxill, Diaram Ramjee Singh, Marjorie D. Segree   +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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FTAA: What's in It for the South?

2002
Not everyone in the Americas thinks that negotiating an FTAA is desirable. Some argue that the timing of the negotiations is being set by the agenda of the developed countries, particularly the US, and not that of the rest of the region. Others say that negotiating tariff reductions will do little to increase exports.
Hester, Annette, Hester, Annette
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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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Does the FTAA have a future?

2008
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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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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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The FTAA: Health Hazard for the Americas?

Journal of Developing Societies, 2003
This article analyzes how the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) would likely exacerbate critical threats to health in the Americas, from the perspectives of public health and human rights. These threats include crises in access to health care, water, and other vital human services; reemerging but preventable fatal diseases; the advance of AIDS ...
Ellen R. Shaffer, Joseph E. Brenner, Alicia Ely Yamin   +2 more
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The Bahamian Economy in the Era of the FTAA

2017
This chapter provides a framework for addressing important development issues of the Bahamian model. It examines possible implications, problems and dilemmas for The Bahamas -should the country join the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
Nikolaos Karagiannis, Christos D. Salvaris   +1 more
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