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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN THE FTAA [PDF]

open access: yes, 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? [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 and the Location of FDI? [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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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.
exaly   +3 more sources

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
exaly   +2 more sources

Venezuela and the Evolution of the FTAA

2015
This book’s central argument is that the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) was initiated not only as a potential agreement to further liberalize and integrate the Western Hemisphere under the leadership of the American state but that it also became a space where that project came to be challenged.
exaly   +3 more sources

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.
exaly   +2 more sources

Caribbean Tourism and the FTAA

2017
Ian Boxill   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

The FTAA After The Emergence Of the Euro [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The aim of this paper is to inquire into the possible relation between the FTAA (Free Trade Area of Americas) and the progressive interna- tionalization of the Euro. We will sustain that the actual productive situation (globalization) makes impossible to think of an FTAA with- out a kind of dollarisation of the Latin American countries (LAC).
Schettino, Francesco
openaire   +2 more sources

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