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Lessons from NAFTA
Lederman, Daniel; Maloney, William; Serven, Luis
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Description for Lessons from NAFTA
Hardback. Analyzing the experience of Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the authors draw lessons for other countries considering free trade agreements with the United States. Series: Latin American Development Forum. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: KCM; KJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 28. Weight in Grams: 667.
Analyzing the experience of Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the authors draw lessons for other countries considering free trade agreements with the United States. The authors conclude that NAFTA raised external trade and foreign investment inflows and had a modest effect on Mexico's average income per person. It is likely that NAFTA also helped achieve a modest reduction in poverty and an improvement in job quality. However, major obstacles remain to Mexico's long term development-NAFTA is not enough. The main lesson for other countries is that free trade agreements offer opportunities to ... Read more
Analyzing the experience of Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the authors draw lessons for other countries considering free trade agreements with the United States. The authors conclude that NAFTA raised external trade and foreign investment inflows and had a modest effect on Mexico's average income per person. It is likely that NAFTA also helped achieve a modest reduction in poverty and an improvement in job quality. However, major obstacles remain to Mexico's long term development-NAFTA is not enough. The main lesson for other countries is that free trade agreements offer opportunities to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Series
Latin American Development Forum
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804752398
SKU
V9780804752398
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99-15
About Lederman, Daniel; Maloney, William; Serven, Luis
Daniel Lederman is Senior Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Bank. William F. Maloney is Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Bank. Luis Serven is Lead Specialist in the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America ... Read more
Reviews for Lessons from NAFTA
"Lessons from NAFTA is important perhaps less for what it tells us about changes under a free-trade agreement and more for its nuanced and careful empirical investigation of how trade can actually make people better off. This, indeed, is the 'big story' of NAFTA and the potential for free trade agreements in the region."
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