Opportunities for convergence and regional cooperation: Unity Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes Bibliography

Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union: striving for a renewed partnership

Includes bibliography

Barriers to Latin American and Caribbean exports in the US market, 1998-1999

Includes bibliography

Fortalecer la productividad y la calidad del empleo: el papel de las disposiciones laborales de los tratados de libre comercio y los sistemas nacionales de capacitación y formación profesional

Prólogo de Alicia Bárcena

Brazil and India: two BRICs as a building bloc for South-South cooperation""

Includes Bibliography

Antidumping in the Americas

Includes bibliography

Medición del impacto de los acuerdos de libre comercio en América Latina: el caso de México

Incluye Bibliografía

Instrumentos para la evaluación del impacto de acuerdos comerciales internacionales: aplicaciones para países pequeños en América Latina

Incluye Bibliografía

Competitividad centroamericana

Incluye Bibliografía

Regional integration in the 1990s

The renewed interest sparked by the potential for intraregional cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean today has been reflected in numerous agreements regarding trade preferences and in attempts to establish free trade areas, customs unions or common markets. The possibility has even been discussed of setting up free trade arrangements on a hemispheric scale. This plethora of proposals inevitably raises a great many questions. What is the reason for this renewed interest? Are the differences between the schemes of today and those of the 1960s and 1970s significant enough to avert the obstacles and difficulties encountered by those earlier schemes? What are the most suitable mechanisms and instruments for promoting intra-Latin American integration? What are the defining characteristics of the various categories of integration initiatives, such as free trade areas, customs unions and common markets? Is it feasible to set up free trade areas involving countries having very dissimilar levels of development or macroeconomic policies? Would it be wise to work towards a gradual convergence of all these initiatives into a single, regionwide scheme? And most importantly: Just how functional would integration be in terms of the development strategies and policies adopted by the individual countries of the region? The various sections of this article attempt to answer, albeit tentatively, these questions.

The comparative advantage fallacy and a rule for convergence

Includes bibliography

Productive development in open economies

Includes bibliography

República Dominicana: evolución económica durante 2004 y perspectivas para 2005

Incluye Bibliografía

Evolución de la industria manufacturera de exportación en Centroamérica, México y República Dominicana durante 2000-2006

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