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‘Ftaa Lite’ A Victory?

NACLA Report on the Americas, 2004
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Does the FTAA have a future?

2008
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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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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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Regionalism in the Americas after the FTAA

2015
The rupture of the Americas into two camps, one centered on the United States and the other centered on the on Southern Common Market (Mercado Comun del Sur—MERCOSUR), at the Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas in 2005 persists to this day. Notably, this rupture has been framed in terms of two different visions of economic development in terms of a ...
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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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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 Regional Dynamics of FTAA Negotiations

2001
A casual observer would be forgiven for concluding that these are both the best and the worst of times for eliminating barriers to international trade and investment. On the plus side, developed countries are firmly committed to the trade liberalization agenda.
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Developmental issues posed by the FTAA

2004
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 ...
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The FTAA and the Political Economy of Protection in Brazil and the U.S.

2006
The interest of specific Latin American economies in the successful completion of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations is very heterogeneous. A list of relevant factors to explain such divergences would include geographic orientation of trade, composition of exports, degree of openness of the economy, level of protection and ...
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