Governing the Americas: Assessing Multilateral InstitutionsGordon Mace, Jean-Philippe Thérien, Paul Alexander Haslam This is a systematic assessment of the functioning of hemispheric institutions since the introduction of the Summit of the Americas process in 1994. The text evaluates the effectiveness of inter-American institutions with regard to core issues of democratic governance, security, trade, and economic development. |
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... Washington consensus approach are dropped . For example , it is pos- sible that the widening earnings gaps by level of education or human capi- tal interface with international trade and capital flows in such a way that they cannot be ...
... Washington consensus approach are dropped . For example , it is pos- sible that the widening earnings gaps by level of education or human capi- tal interface with international trade and capital flows in such a way that they cannot be ...
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... Washington consensus and the FTAA ( the raison d'être of the First Summit of the Americas , in 1994 ) was that Latin America would benefit both from more trade in general and from more within the hemisphere . This idea , together with ...
... Washington consensus and the FTAA ( the raison d'être of the First Summit of the Americas , in 1994 ) was that Latin America would benefit both from more trade in general and from more within the hemisphere . This idea , together with ...
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... Washington consensus . The relative lack of success of almost two decades of neoliberal economic reform has further underlined this divide . The rigidity of the North American attitude toward state intervention in a region where market ...
... Washington consensus . The relative lack of success of almost two decades of neoliberal economic reform has further underlined this divide . The rigidity of the North American attitude toward state intervention in a region where market ...
Contents
An Overview | 13 |
A Sisyphean Endeavor? | 35 |
The OAS and the | 51 |
Copyright | |
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