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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... exports of primary products and imports of manufactures . A new model based on import substi- tution , and formalized in the 1950s by Raúl Prebisch of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America ( now known as the Economic ...
... exports of primary products and imports of manufactures . A new model based on import substi- tution , and formalized in the 1950s by Raúl Prebisch of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America ( now known as the Economic ...
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... export markets overall and undercutting the chance for a boom in labor- intensive exports from Latin America.2 4. The main source of indifferent performance since 1990 has been the negative inertial effects of the 1980s crisis . In this ...
... export markets overall and undercutting the chance for a boom in labor- intensive exports from Latin America.2 4. The main source of indifferent performance since 1990 has been the negative inertial effects of the 1980s crisis . In this ...
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... exports ( Berry 2005 ) . 4. There is little or no evidence that price stability by itself will trig- ger growth , as some optimists have believed . 5. Some degree of control over international capital movements is desirable where there ...
... exports ( Berry 2005 ) . 4. There is little or no evidence that price stability by itself will trig- ger growth , as some optimists have believed . 5. Some degree of control over international capital movements is desirable where there ...
Contents
An Overview | 13 |
A Sisyphean Endeavor? | 35 |
The OAS and the | 51 |
Copyright | |
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