Between 1986 and 1995, the government of Canada negotiated and implemented three major international trade agreements: the 1989 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (CUFTA), the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the 1995 World Trade Organization Agreement (WTO). Individually, each...

This study is concerned with the insertion of environmental management in tourist sector policies to ensure that threats are recognized and addressed. Four main characteristics of Caribbean tourism provide the rationale for this study. First, tourism is the single most common industry in the...

This paper will discuss the use of instruments that promote social protection. It then will assess the impact that globalization, in all its manifestations, might have on these instruments.

Second Meeting of the Finance Minister of the Americas and the Caribbean

The Fund, which is consistent with the priorities of the Aid for Trade (AFT) initiative of the WTO, will also help to coordinate and mobilize multi-sectoral expertise across governments, non-governmental institutions and private sector, and to strengthen coordination and partnerships with...

The purpose of this document is to raise a debate among the Vice- Ministers of Trade of the hemispheric countries regarding the participation of civil society in the process of designing and implementing trade policies. The European case of consultations between civil society and the European...

Integration into the global economy is a central component of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries development strategy. Trade is an engine for growth and, if accompanied with sound and wide-ranging complementary public and private sector policies and initiatives, has the potential to...

En el presente informe (número especial de la Nota Periódica sobre Integración y Comercio en las Américas) el interés se ha centrado en los desafíos específicos que enfrentan la Unión Europea y América Latina y el Caribe, así como en las oportunidades que surgen de tales desafíos....