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This publication reviews the current debate on competition policy. It presents a short survey of competition policy in the United States, Europe and Latin America together with an overview of anti...

This paper presents a critical survey of the literature on economic globalization and gender, with a specific focus on Latin American and Caribbean studies. The objectives of the survey are twofold: 1...

Throughout the last century, two interwoven trends have been unfolding in the world economy: the growing internationalization of the production process and the predominance of manufactured goods in...

The interaction between antidumping and antitrust is a polemic issue in every integration process for both legal and economic reasons. From a legal perspective, antidumping rules allow practices such...

In this series a comparison is made between the 'export orientation' of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America and East Asia. The series calls for a new approach to SME policy...

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is expected to introduce revolutionary innovations to businesses, management and international trade. However, in Latin America and the Caribbean the innovative gains...

Latin American countries rank among those that have displayed the greatest amount of rule-making activism towards foreign direct investment in recent decades. This paper depicts the changing...

This paper analyses the main features of trade agreements covering services concluded between Latin American countries and developed country partners. By means of a very detailed comparison across...

This publication provides an overview of trade relations between Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and explores the possibilities for expanding the economic relations between the two regions. The...

Transparency obligations are changing the way policies in general are formulated, adopted and implemented. Implementation takes place at different moments in time and at different stages of the...

Bureaucracies in Latin America play a major role in designing and orienting the decisions on trade policy. On the other hand, the Legislative Power assumes an important role in the final stage, when...

At the national level CARICOM economies are at different stages in their export promotion efforts ranging from countries such as Suriname where export promotion is a distant objective to Barbados...

This paper presents a discussion of the major methodological issues relating to some key studies assessing the employment effects of a particular Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA). In this line, the...

This paper examines the web of over 40 trade agreements that now exist in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. These agreements and their negotiation processes have generated centripetal and...

Since the entry into force of the results of the Uruguay Round, Latin American Countries have embarked in active trade policy based on negotiations of Free Trade Agreements. These agreements cover a...

The present level of intra-regional trade of Latin America and the Caribbean in relation to their total exports is still low when compared to the peak of 21.1% registered in 1997, despite its rebound...

This publication seeks to explore the differences and similarities among the initiatives of regional economic cooperation in Latin America and East Asia, as they present similar experiences in their...

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...

Export growth in Latin America and the Caribbean over the past 20 years has enabled the region to regain part of the share of global trade that it had lost during the three preceding decades. However...

Despite an increase in manufacturing activity in Latin America and the Caribbean, the growth in value-added generated by exports of manufactures has been disappointing in most cases. In order to...