Trade policy reforms in Latin America : multilateral rules and domestic institutions /
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. |
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| Description: | xvi, 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5146278 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on the Contributors
- 1. Introduction: Juggling with WTO Rules in Latin America
- Introduction
- Rules and power in the liberalization of world trade: collective action and national autonomy
- Ideas, interest and institutions in the political economy of Latin American trade policy
- Final considerations
- Part I. Trade Liberalization and Preferential Market Access
- 2. Chile: A Multi-Track Market Access Strategy
- Introduction
- Trade and investment in Chile in the 1990s
- Market access, export promotion and adjustment to multilateral rules
- The interplay between public and private interests: conflict and cooperation
- The negotiating agenda
- 3. Mexico: A Regional Player in Multilateral Trade Negotiations
- Introduction
- From unilateral liberalization to regional integration
- Trade policy instruments
- WTO commitments
- Business and government views
- Mexico as a regional player
- Part II. The Management of Trade Liberalization in the Mercosur
- 4. Argentina: In a Logic of Nested Games
- Introduction
- Trade policy revisited
- WTO commitments: a mercantilist overview of costs and benefits
- The regional constitution: Mercosur
- The life cycle of the public-private interaction
- The logic of multiple games
- 5. Brazil: The Fine-Tuning of Trade Liberalization
- Introduction
- Trade and investment policies
- Brazilian production and trade
- The management of trade liberalization: the views of public and private actors
- The Brazilian trade agenda in the new round of multilateral trade negotiations
- Concluding remarks
- 6. Uruguay: Trade Policy in a Small Economy
- Introduction
- Trade and investment policies
- Government, business organizations and the civil society
- Regional, hemispheric and multilateral negotiations
- Concluding remarks
- Part III. The Andean Experience
- 7. Colombia and Venezuela: Trade Policy Reforms and Institutional Adjustments
- Introduction
- Trade policy reforms and integration choices
- Current trade policy instruments
- WTO commitments: costs and benefits
- The trade and integration agenda
- Conclusions
- 8. Peru: Trade Policy and International Negotiations
- Introduction
- Trade performance
- Peru's trade policy
- Open regionalism
- The impact of trade reform and private sector involvement
- Complexities of the Peruvian trade agenda
- Conclusions: The Latin American Countries and the World Trading System--Addressing Institutional Barriers to Development
- Introduction
- The outcome of the UR: some critical issues at stake
- The public-private framework of trade policy decisions: feeble bridges and institutional lags
- Looking ahead: it is about rules!
- Bibliography
- Index
