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Regional Integration and Technology Diffusion : The Case of the North America Free Trade Agreement
Schiff, Maurice - 2017
direction. The authors examine the impact of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on total factor productivity in …
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Economic Performance Under NAFTA : A Firm-Level Analysis of the Trade-Productivity Linkages
De Hoyos, Rafael E. - 2017
Did the North American Free Trade Agreement make Mexican firms more productive? If so, through which channels? This paper addresses these questions by deploying an innovative microeconometric approach that disentangles the various channels through which integration with the global markets (via...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976004
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The Growth of China and India in World Trade : Opportunity or Threat for Latin America and the Caribbean?
Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2016
America and the Caribbean. Results suggest that the growth of the two Asian markets has produced large opportunities for Latin … trade has been good news for Latin America and the Caribbean, but some of the potential benefits remain unexploited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747645
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Openness and Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World : A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents, and Surfactant Producers
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2006
This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in the Mexican soaps, detergents, and surfactants (SDS) industry. Several basic findings emerge. First, the most fundamental effect of the NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779238
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Openness and Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World : A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents, and Surfactant Producers
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2016
This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in the Mexican soaps, detergents, and surfactants (SDS) industry. Several basic findings emerge. First, the most fundamental effect of the NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747985
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Urbanization and Development : Is Latin America and the Caribbean Different from the Rest of the World?
Roberts, Mark - 2017
urbanization is strongly negatively correlated with the size of its agricultural sector. However, countries in the Latin America …. This paper reexamines whether Latin America and Caribbean countries differ from the rest of the world in the basic stylized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959138
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Nonstandard Forms of Employment in Developing Countries : A Study for a Set of Selected Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia
Apella, Ignacio - 2018
countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia in the past two decades. The analysis of the profile of … in Latin America most of the countries show a stable prevalence in recent decades, in Europe and Central Asia there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911328
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The Rise of China and Labor Market Adjustments in Latin America
Artuc, Erhan - 2018
This paper assesses the impact of the rise of China on the trade of Latin American and Caribbean economies. The study proposes an index to measure the impact on trade, which suggests sizable effects, especially in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Honduras, Mexico, and Paraguay. The paper uses the index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937561
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Measuring Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean : Methodological Considerations When Estimating an Empirical Regional Poverty Line
Castaneda, Raul - 2017
comparisons in Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper exploits a unique, comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date urban … official extreme and moderate poverty lines across 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the recent … harmonized household surveys that are part of the Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean project. Because of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969605
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Business Cycles in the Eastern Caribbean Economies : The Role of Fiscal Policy and Interest Rates
Carneiro, Francisco - 2017
This paper analyzes the business cycle characteristics of the economies of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States using a model of a small open economy subject to interest rate and fiscal expenditure shocks and financial frictions. The paper shows that macroeconomic aggregates in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970170