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What's New in the New Regionalism in the Americas?

Estevadeordal, Antoni; Devlin, Robert - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001

The centrifugal forces of economic globalization in the 1990's ran parallel with centripetal forces of regionalization. While seemingly pulling in opposite directions, the two forces reflected complementary dimensions of dynamic capitalist market development. The completion of the Uruguay Round...

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Trade Costs and the Economic Fundamentals of the Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA)

Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

In October 2000, the twelve countries of South America launched, a multinational, multisectoral and multidisciplinary initiative, whose main objective is to develop the region's infrastructure within a context of environmental sustainability. Supported by the Inter-American Development Bank...

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¿Qué hay de Nuevo en el Nuevo Regionalismo en las Américas?

Estevadeordal, Antoni; Devlin, Robert - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001

corriente de asociación en la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) fue acompañada por una situación en la cual los esquemas … libre comercio recíproco, que sumaron alrededor de veinte. Estas tendencias fueron acompañadas por un promedio de … crecimiento fuerte del comercio internacional en los años noventa y un aumento marcado del comercio intrarregional. Este trabajo …

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Integration Options for MERCOSUR: A Quantitative Analysis by the AMIDA Model

Renato G. Flôres Jr.; Watanuki, Masakazu - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

The recent developments at the multilateral and regional fronts call for a re-evaluation of trade and integration options for MERCOSUR. Applying a brand new CGE model, we evaluated six scenarios. The simulation results indicate that trade agreements will generate relatively small but positive...

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Regional Integration: What is in it for CARICOM?

Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita; Mendoza, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

Economic and political integration have been a perennial and neuralgic issue in the Caribbean agenda. This paper draws on the literature on trade, growth and regional agreements to discuss the motivation behind the Caribbean drive for integration, the results obtained so far and what is in stock...

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Euro-Latin Study Network on Integration and Trade (ELSNIT): 3rd Annual Conference

Ventura, Jaume; Fouquin, Michel; Licandro, Omar; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

The process of economic reform and trade liberalization in Latin America and the Caribbean, under way since the end of the 1980s, has brought about an increasing integration of the countries in the region into the world economy, both in terms of commercial and investment flows. At the same time,...

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Central American Report No. 1 (2000)

Guzmán, Eduardo Alonso - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001

The Central American Common Market (CACM) comprises Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, the signatories of the General Treaty on Economic Integration in 1960. The basic pattern of economic integration in Central America was based on a free trade area, with a common...

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Euro-Latin Study Network on Integration and Trade (ELSNIT): 1st Annual Conference

Langhammer, Rolf J.; Sturzenegger, Federico; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

Latin American and Caribbean countries are today at an important juncture in their international economic relations. Since the end of the 1980s the countries of the region have been pursuing a process of economic reform and opening that has brought about a radical change in their domestic...

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Raúl Prebisch: El poder, los principios y la ética del desarrollo: Ensayos en homenaje a David Pollock por la celebración de los 100 años del nacimiento de Raúl Prebisch

Carciofi, Ricardo; Dosman, Edgar J.; Iglesias, Enrique V.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

Raúl Prebisch fue una de las grandes figuras de América Latina que trascendió desde los años treinta como personalidad regional e internacional preponderante. Por ello cabe honrar el centenario de su nacimiento en la provincia de Tucumán, Argentina, en 1901, con un discurso especial y una...

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Regional Aspects of Brazil's Trade Policy

Domínguez, Edson P.; Perobelli, Fernando S. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

This paper aims to evaluate a number of spatial aspects of Brazils current trade policy, emphasizing those relating to economic integration in general, and bilateral trade with Argentina in particular. A national computable general equilibrium model was developed and implemented (EFES-ARG), in...

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