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Sustainable Economic Growth: Sector Strategy (2003)

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2003

The objective of this Strategy (GN-2227) is to contribute to increase the growth rates of per capita GDP and income in the Region, under conditions that lead to improving the quality of life of the population, alleviating poverty, and preserving or improving the natural resource base. Proposed...

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Trade Liberalization and Trade Taxes

Tanzi, Vito - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This note discusses trade liberalization and trade taxes. The main issue should not be the reduction of trade taxes but of total tax revenue. By potentially changing the structure of the economy, trade liberalization will affect not just tax revenue but also the role of the state in the economy...

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Towards an Evaluation of Regional Integration in Latin America in the 1990s

Devlin, Robert; French-Davis, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

The decade of the 1990s has witnessed a wave of regional integration initiatives in Latin America: more than 14 agreements -free trade areas or customs unions- since 1990 with a handful more in varying degrees of negotiation (see Table 1). However, this was not just a Latin American phenomenon,...

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Methodologies for Regional Programs and Projects: Strategy and Programming

Madhur, Srinivasa - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This presentation discusses the Asian Development Bank's (ADB's) Regional Cooperation and Integration (RCI) Strategy. The RCI strategy includes a results-based monitoring framework to monitor progress in each pillar. The framework identifies broad outcomes to be achieved, performance monitoring...

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A Reality Check: Regional Integration and Development Impact in Cross-border European Projects in Southern Europe: Preliminary Findings from Three Case Studies

Camacho, E.; Gallardo, R.; Guerrero, J.E.; Parras, I. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This presentation discusses select regional integration projects from Southern Europe and the impact from these case studies. Specifically mentioned are the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and INTERREG, an initiative that aims to stimulate cooperation between regions in...

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Regional Integration and Productivity: The Experiences of Brazil and Mexico

Córdova, José Ernesto López; Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

investment (FDI) and total factor productivity (TFP). Also discussed are Brazil and Mexico's integration strategies and an …

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Integration and Trade in the Americas: Fiscal Impact of Trade Liberalization in the Americas

Barreix, Alberto Daniel; Villela, Luiz Arruda; Roca, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

The purpose of this document is to inform Bank staff and other interested parties about recent developments in integration and trade among the countries of the Western Hemisphere and between these and other countries and world regions.

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Diaspora Direct Investment Policy: Options for Development

Rodríguez-Montemayor, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

In today's globalized world, goods and capital are flowing as never before. The movement of people across borders has … impacts of Diaspora Direct Investment (DDI) on international development, i.e. we look at how direct investments from foreign … may act as a catalyst for further investment from other companies by providing market and operational information about …

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Pathways to China: The Story of Latin American Firms in the Chinese Market Title: Los caminos a China: La experiencia de las empresas latinoamericanas en el mercado chino

Estevadeordal, Antoni; Kahn, Theodore - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Trade between Latin America and China has grown at an annual average rate of 25 percent since 2000, driven primarily by strong complementarity between the two economies. While commodities-for-manufacturing trade continues to be the dominant feature of the economic relationship, a number of LAC...

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Regionalism and Multilateralism in the Twenty-First Century

Winters, L. Alan - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

remove tariffs on intra-bloc trade in goods, but many go beyond that to cover non-tariff barriers and to extend … liberalisation to trade investment and other policies. …

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