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International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2019: Adverse global conditions leave the region lagging further behind
(ECLAC, 2019-10-29)
The global trade performance in 2019 was the worst since the international financial crisis. This edition of International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean analyses that performance, as well as the mounting ...
What to expect when the presidents of Brazil and Argentina meet
(The Economist, 2017-02-04)
Prickly nationalism is trending in the rich world, but in South America's two biggest countries the talk is of partnering up. On February 7th Mauricio Macri, Argentina's president (shown on the left), plans to visit his ...
Google matrix analysis of the multiproduct world trade network
(Springer, 2015-04)
Using the United Nations COMTRADE database [United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database, available at: http://comtrade.un.org/db/. Accessed November (2014)] we construct the Google matrix G of multiproduct world ...
9Emerging trade politics: the continuous pendulum from multilateralism to asymmetric trade negotiationsPolíticas de comércio emergentes: o pêndulo contínuodo multilateralismo às negociações assimétricas
(Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais. Departamento de Relações Internacionais, 2014-06)
In this essay we analyze the challenges of asymmetric trade agreements at a time when Mercosur and Ecuador are opening negotiations with the European Union. How can developing countries manage the terms of integration into ...
Comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms and variable mark-ups
(2014-06-27)
We develop a model of comparative advantage with monopolistic competition, that incorporates heterogeneous firms and endogenous mark-ups. We analyse how these features vary across countries with different factor endowments, ...
Rules of origin and trade facilitation in preferential trade agreements in Latin America
(ECLAC, 2003-08)
The term rules of origin" is an economic expression referring to a set of substantive rules for identifying the source of imported goods. As with any set of rules, certain formalities must be followed which entail public ...
Trade facilitation in the mulitilateral framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
(ECLAC, 2001-06)
This article is a follow-up to the FAL Bulletin No. 167, in the sense that it considers developments in trade facilitation within WTO. Its focus, however, is exclusively on what has occured within WTO in this area. Emphasis ...
Preferential trade agreements and global sourcing
(2019-07-01)
We study how a preferential trade agreement (PTA) affects international sourcing decisions, aggregate productivity and welfare under incomplete contracting and endogenous matching. Contract incompleteness implies ...
Policy alternatives and strategies for the Plurinational State of Bolivia following the end of trade preferences
(ECLAC, 2011-09)
The governments of Latin America and the Caribbean have made trade-building efforts a key part of their development agenda, given the broad consensus on the important role played by trade in development policy. Although ...