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Tendencias de la inserción internacional de Suramérica: el caso de la Unasur
Cadena, Arturo Cancino; G, Carlos Alberto Chaves - UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL - 2011
Tras el agotamiento del llamado "regionalismo abierto" y en medio de la crisis social ocasionada por la aplicación de … lo que algunos han empezado a llamar "regionalismo posliberal". La Unión de Naciones Suramericanas (Unasur) es la … antecedentes de este proceso; estudia, a la luz de las teorías sobre integración regional y regionalismo, las fuerzas que …
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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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Regional Banks and Regionalism: A New Frontier for Development Financing
Devlin, Robert; Castro, Lucio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
The 1990s witnessed the parallel forces of globalization and regionalization strongly at work. While seemingly contradictory, they are in fact complementary aspects of market development. This paper will focus on the latter, and its special aspects of regionalism; i.e., policy driven regional...
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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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Climate Policy Options and the World Trade Organization
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde; Kim, Jisun - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-29, pp. 1-15
This paper examines whether the climate policy options policymakers are contemplating are compatible with core principles of the world trading system set forth in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and Appellate Body decisions. The authors...
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Regional economic integration and multilateralism: The case of the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA and the Malaysia-New Zealand FTA
Vitalis, Vangelis - 2015
Regional economic integration is back in vogue following the "stumble" in the Doha Round in July 2008. Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are driving this trend in Asia and the Pacific as well as in Central and South America, and the sheer volume of PTAs is striking. In the 1990s there were...
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Is the Washington consensus dead? Growth, openness, and the great liberation, 1970s - 2000s
Estevadeordal, Antoni; Taylor, Alan M. - 2009
According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries' growth would benefit from reductions in barriers to trade. However, the empirical basis for judging trade reforms is weak. Econometrics are mostly ad hoc; results are typically not judged against models; policies are poorly measured; and...
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African Agency and EU-African Economic Partnership Agreements
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 49 (2014) 3, pp. 149-155
This article provides a review of literature on African Agency and the drivers of change within EU–African trade politics in negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and African governments.
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International Migration and Trade Agreements: the new role of PTAs
Orefice, Gianluca - 2013
This paper investigates empirically the role of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) as determinants of migration inflows for 29 OECD countries in the period 1998-2008. By increasing information about signatory countries, PTAs are expected to drive migration flows towards member countries....
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Indisputably essential: The economics of dispute settlement institutions in trade agreements
Keck, Alexander; Schropp, Simon - 2007
Economic theory has made considerable progress in explaining why sovereign countries cooperate in trade. Central to most theories of trade cooperation are issues of self-enforcement: The threat of reprisal by an aggrieved party maintains the initial balance of concessions and prevents...
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