Draft for discussion Not for quotation Lessons from NAFTA for Latin America and the Caribbean

NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-to-State Cases: Bankrupting Democracy LESSONS FOR FAST TRACK AND THE FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In the spring of 2001, President George W. Bush asked the U.S. Congress to delegate to him a 6-year chunk of Congress constitutional authority over international trade through a process called Fast Track. Bush seeks Fast Track trade authority (which his Administration is attempting to rename "Trade Promotion Authority") to expand the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (...

Draft for Comments SOCIAL SAFETY NET ASSESSMENT (SSNA) A Toolkit for Latin America and the Caribbean

Ethnobotany and biodiversity conservation-holistic approaches from Eastern Africa and Latin America

Scientists widely agree that species extinction has heavily accelerated in the last decades. A grave problem for the conservation of diversity is the still very fragmentary knowledge of the ecology of most species. Attempts of sustainable management and conservation must integrate local communities and their traditional knowledge. Management decisions need to include the high importance of natu...

Tentative Draft, October 7, 2003 Not for citation or quotation REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS AND THE WTO: GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND NAFTA LESSONS FOR ASIA

1 The fifth WTO ministerial conference held at Cancun in mid-September 2003 was intended to define more precisely the negotiating parameters for the Doha Development Agenda, the round of negotiations launched at the fourth WTO ministerial conference held in Doha in November 2001. The meeting was terminated following an inability to reach consensus on whether to start negotiations on the so-call...

Session II: European perspective on market integration: Lessons for NAFTA

First Annual NAFTA Market Integration Workshop Cancun, Mexico May 6-7, 2004 Session II: European perspective on market integration: Lessons for NAFTA Session II has as its primary objective to learn from the steps the European Union has taken to integrate markets and the related accomplishments. Implications should be drawn for NAFTA. In particular, the paper and subsequent discussion should ad...