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Oil prices and real exchange rates in the NAFTA region

The North American journal of economics and finance, 2019
The real exchange rate is a key indicator of a country’s trade competitiveness in the world economy. In this study, we set up a forecasting framework to generate the multi-period random walk predictions of both real broad and narrow effective exchange ...
Hamid Baghestani, H. Toledo
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Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA

Enterprise & Society, 2018
In 1974 two young academics, economist and New York Times columnist Leonard Silk and political scientist David Vogel, were hired to conduct a report on the ideas of business executives about the political condition of the United States.
K. Phillips-Fein
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The Political Economy of NAFTA/USMCA

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, 2019
When the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into force on January 1st, 1994, it created the largest free trade area in the world, and the one with the largest gaps in development between member countries.
Gustavo Flores-Macías, Mariano Sánchez-Talanquer   +1 more
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The effect of NAFTA on internal migration in Mexico: a regional economic analysis

Applied Economics, 2018
Trade facilitates growth in some regions of a country while shrinking others, and therefore to benefit from trade, labour may need to be able to migrate.
M. Arends-Kuenning, K. Baylis, Rafael Garduño-Rivera   +2 more
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NAFTA 2.0: The Greenest Trade Agreement Ever?

World Trade Review, 2019
The renegotiation of what US President Trump called ‘the worst trade deal ever’ has resulted in the most detailed environmental chapter in any trade agreement in history.
N. Laurens, Zachary Dove, J. Morin, Sikina Jinnah   +3 more
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Reassessing the ‘Green’ in NAFTA

Journal of World Trade, 2018
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was the first trade agreement to explicitly link trade policy with environmental protection goals to ensure that liberalized trade did not result in increased environmental degradation.
L. Allen
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Trump, Trade, and Trabajo: Renegotiating NAFTA's Labor Accord in a Fraught Political Climate

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 2019
Quitting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and demanding renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)— along with its supplemental labor pact, the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC)—were among the first actions of
L. Compa
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Apparent consumption of caloric sweeteners increased after the implementation of NAFTA in Mexico

Food Policy, 2018
The consumption of sugar and sweeteners have been associated with obesity and diabetes, which are public health problems in Mexico. Since 1994, imports of sweeteners for the elaboration of ultra-processed food and beverages increased in the country. This
M. Unar-Munguía, Eric Monterubio Flores, M. A. Colchero   +2 more
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Energy and CO2 emission relationships in the NAFTA trading bloc: a multi-regional multi-factor energy input–output approach

Economic Systems Research, 2018
The North-America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has brought together the economies of Canada, Mexico, and the US into forming one of the largest trading blocs worldwide (within the top CO2 emitters).
Z. Guevara, E. Molina-Pérez, Edith X. M. García, Vanessa Pérez-Cirera   +3 more
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Scarcity and Power in US–Mexico Transboundary Water Governance: Has the Architecture Changed since NAFTA?

Environmental Security in Transnational Contexts, 2016
This paper examines the politics of water allocation on the US–Mexico border since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) began in 1994.
S. Mumme
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