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Burfisher, Mary E.; Lambert, Frederic; Matheson, Troy - 2019

The United States - Mexico - Canada Agreement (USMCA) was signed on November 30, 2018 and aims to replace and modernize the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This paper uses a global, multisector, computable-general-equilibrium model to provide an analytical assessment of five key...

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Regional Trade Agreements Versus Board Liberalization : Which Path Leads to Faster Growth? Time-Series Evidence

Vamvakidis, Athanasios - 1998

Should a closed economy open its trade to all countries or limit itself to participation in regional trade agreements (RTAs)? Based on time-series evidence for a data set for 1950-92, this paper estimates and compares the growth performance of countries that liberalized broadly and those that...

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Regional Trade Integration and WTO Accession : Which is the Right Sequencing? An Application to the Cis

Tumbarello, Patrizia - 2005

This paper analyzes the appropriate sequencing between accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the implementation of the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC) customs union and whether the latter facilitates or delays WTO accession for some member countries of the Commonwealth of...

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Trade integration in Latin America : a network perspective

Beaton, Kimberly; Cebotari, Aliona; Ding, Xiaodan; … - 2017

The paper applies a network analysis framework to analyze the regional and global integration of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We compare network-based measures of trade integration to conventional measures, decomposing integration along several dimensions to better understand...

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Revisiting the link between trade, growth and inequality : lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean

Beaton, Kimberly; Cebotari, Aliona; Komaromi, Andras - 2017

We revisit the relationship between international trade, economic growth and inequality with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper combines two approaches: First, we employ a cross-country panel framework to analyze the macroeconomic effects of international trade on economic...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms : Evidence From Eastern Europe and Latin America

Kinoshita, Yuko - 2008

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms -financial reforms, trade liberalization, and privatization- as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European countries between 1989 and 2004. Our main...

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Intra-regional spillovers in South America : is Brazil systemic after all?

Adler, Gustavo; Sosa, Sebastián - 2012

Shocks stemming from Brazil - the large neighbor in South America - have historically been a source of concern for … policy-makers in other countries of the region. This paper studies the importance of Brazil's influence on its neighboring … setting. While trade linkages with Brazil are significant for the Southern Cone countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay …

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Social programs and formal employment : evidence from the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program

Fruttero, Anna; Leichsenring, Alexandre Ribeiro; Paiva, … - 2020

eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to …

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Labor market dynamics, informality, and regulations in Latin America

David, Antonio; Pienknagura, Samuel; Roldós, Jorge E. - 2020

Labor markets in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are characterized by high levels of informality and relatively rigid regulation. This paper shows that these two features are related and together make the speed of adjustment of employment to shocks slower, especially when regulations are...

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Regional Convergence in Latin America

Sutton, Bennett - 2006

-income Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. It explores the role played by several …"" within Brazil and Peru- the estimated speeds of convergence for these countries more than double after controlling for …

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