Download or read book Regional banks and regionalism a new frontier for development financing Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD 13 written by Robert Devlin and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2002 with total page 47 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Regional integration what in it for CARICOM Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD 29 written by Mauricio Mesquita Moreira and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 for the future. It argues, with the help of descriptive statistics, an empirical growth model and a gravity model, that the traditional, trade related gains from regional integration have been and are bound to be limited because of (i) the countries' high openness; (ii) the limited size of the common, enlarged market; and (iii) the countries' relatively similar factor endowments. It also argues, though, that gains in the area of non-tradables, due to economies of scale which cannot be mitigated by trade and openness, can be substantial.

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.

Download or read book Building regional infrastructure in Latin America Working Paper IECI Documento de Trabajo SITI n 10 written by Vito Tanzi and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Leveraging efforts on remittances and financial intermediation Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD n 24 written by Manuel Orozco and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Globalization migration and development the role of Mexican migrant remittances Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD n 20 written by J. Ernesto López Córdova and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we present evidence indicating that international migrant remittances lead to improved developmental outcomes. Using a cross-section of all Mexican municipalities (over 2400) in the year 2000, we show that an increase in the fraction of households receiving international remittances is correlated with better schooling and health indicators and with reductions in poverty, even after controlling for the likely endogeneity between remittances and developmental outcome variables. Our findings have important policy implications as they suggest that national governments and the international community should adopt measures that facilitate remittance flows.

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 Mexican microenterprise investment and employment the role of remittances Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD 26 written by Christopher Woodruff 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 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 Emigration remittances and labor force participation in Mexico Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD 28 written by Gordon H. Hanson and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: