Download or read book Regional integration and productivity the experiences of Brazil and Mexico Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD n 14 written by Mauricio Mesquita Moreira and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2015 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the impact of integration on productivity? What are the main channels? Is there anything specific about productivity effects in regional agreements? This paper tries to answer these questions by looking at the experience of Brazil and Mexico. We estimate firm-level productivity and test its causal links with trade and FDI variables. The results suggest strong trade related gains, with import discipline emerging as the dominant effect. The results on learning-by-exporting were mixed, with gains restricted to Brazil's regional and worldwide exports. On FDI, foreign firms appear to have had a positive impact on their buyers and suppliers in Mexico, but in Brazil, the overall impact was statistically insignificant on productivity levels and negative on productivity growth.

Download or read book Regional Integration and Productivity written by Ernesto López-Córdova and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trade costs and the economic fundamentals of the initiative for integration of regional infrastructure in South America IIRSA Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD 30 written by Mauricio Mesquita Moreira and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The FTAA and the political economy of protection in Brazil and the US Working Paper IECI Documento de Trabajo SITI n 12 written by Marcelo de Paiva Abreu and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The food industry in Brazil and the United States the effects of the FTAA on trade and investment Working Paper SITI Documento de Trabajo IECI n 7 written by Paulo F. de Azevedo and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The european window challenges in the negotiation of M xico s free trade agreement with the European Union Working Paper SITI Documento de Trabajo IECI n 9 written by Sergio Gómez Lora and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 1 July 2000 regulations to liberalize trade flows between Mexico and the European Union came into force, after more than six years of diplomatic work and complex negotiations. These regulations are part of the "Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLCUEM), which is also one of the components of the Agreement on Economic Association, Political Concertation and Cooperation ("Global Agreement"). The Global Agreement through its three components - political dialogue, trade liberalization and cooperation- was at the time the most ambitious agreement ever constituted by the EU. The economic association component included in the Global Agreement - the TLCUEM- was the first overseas free trade treaty and served as an important precedent for later EU negotiations with other Latin American countries. The purpose of this essay is to analyze the reasons that led Mexico and the EU to the constitution of this treaty; to describe the main challenges of the Global Agreement negotiations of different components; and to briefly review the results of the first three years since the TLCUEM enforcement.

Download or read book Trade liberalization and the political economy of protection in Brazil since 1987 Working Paper SITI Documento de Trabajo IECI n 8b written by Marcelo de Paiva Abreu and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rules of origin in FTAs in Europe and in the Americas issues and implications for the EU Mercosur Inter Regional Association Agreement Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD 15 written by Antoni Estevadeordal and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reciprocity in the FTAA the roles of market access institutions and negotiating capacity Working Paper SITI Documento de Trabajo IECI n 2 written by Julio J. Nogués and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The benefits of the FTAA to Latin American countries will materialize through two channels: improved access to the region's markets, and enhanced growth prospects through the strengthening of basic economic institutions. Furthermore, the importance of these negotiations is heightened by the fact that they are taking place against the failure of the Uruguay Round to liberalize agricultural trade, and the lack of progress in the ongoing negotiations of the Doha Round, Under these conditions, for Latin American countries who are net exporters of different bundles of agricultural products, the FTAA could be the best opportunity for accelerating growth in the region. The analysis includes a discussion of these issues stressing the fact that in order for the reciprocical exchange of concessions agreed in the FTAA to result in an important liberalization of intra-regional trade, Latin American countries will have to negotiate with greater firmness than in the past.

Download or read book Remittances and healthcare expenditure patterns of populations in origin communities evidence from Mexico Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD 25 written by Catalina Amuedo Dorantes and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fiscal policy and equity estimation of the progressivity and redistributive capacity of taxes and social public expenditure in the Andean countries Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD 33 written by Alberto Barreix and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How do rules of origin affect investment flows some hypotheses and the case of Mexico Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD n 22 written by Antoni Estevadeordal and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Convergence in the rules of origin Spaghetti Bowl a methodological proposal Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD n 34 written by Rafael Cornejo and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Improving the access of Mercosur s agriculture exports to United States lessons from NAFTA Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD 18 written by Pablo José Sanguinetti and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book MERCOSUR in search of a new agenda MERCOSUR dillemas and alternatives of the trade agenda Working Paper SITI Documento de Trabajo IECI n 6c written by Sandra Polónia Rios and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Migration and education inequality in rural Mexico Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD n 23 written by David J. McKenzie and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chile s integration strategy is there room for improvement Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD n 21 written by Mauricio Mesquita Moreira and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the main issues in Chile's trade agenda? This paper argues that the country's agenda does not lend itself to that traditional kind of policy advice usually given throughout Latin America. Protection is low and uniform, institutions that govern trade policy are strong and well protected from capture and the country has put a lot of effort in opening markets in the region and abroad. The important issues that come out of the analysis are to a great extent, "second generational". That is: export diversification, the regional distribution of trade gains, completion of the "multidimensional" trade strategy and transport costs. Whereas Chile has made progress in diversifying its exports away from copper, concentration is still high even when compared to other resource intensive countries. On the regional issue, it seems clear that Chile's export-led growth in the last two decades was not evenly distributed across the regions. On Chile's "multidimensional" trade strategy, Asia is clearly the missing link in the country's wide net of preferential agreements and the evidence available suggest that transport costs are these days a more important obstacle to Chile's trade than traditional trade barriers.