Covers trends in the 1980s and 1990s. Includes case studies of social and labour policies in eight companies.

Analyses the applications of bacterial leaching in non-coal mining, and considers potential benefits of the adoption of this technology by developing countries.

This review article assesses the edited volume The Age of Productivity: Transforming Economies from the Bottom Up, which addresses the productivity challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean. The main message of the volume is that a low level of total factor productivity (TFP) and slow...

Concerns about potential impacts of captive supply on fed cattle prices have been present for several years inboth Canada and the US. In Canada, the magnitude of concern escalated during closure of the US border to fedcattle trade (May 2003 to July 2005) and has remained at an elevated level....

The report includes data published in the Red Meats Yearbook which originates in the Livestock Division, Agricultural Marketing Service CAMS); Estimates Division, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS); and Commodity Economics Division, Economic Research Service (ERS). Included are data...

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a comprehensive trade liberalizing agreement among Canada, Mexico, and the United States. This is especially true for Agricultural trade between Mexico, and the United States. Agricultural trade barriers between Mexico and the United States were...

The objectives of this research are to develop a multi-region multi-sector CGE model with FDI that will allow assessing the impact of security measures on the Canadian and U.S. economies. We assess the impact in terms of Canada-U.S. bilateral trade and foreign direct investment, but also in...