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Articles

 
A.) Free-Trade Agreements and DR CAFTA
1

C. Felipe Jaramillo and Daniel Lederman.
“DR CAFTA Challenges and Opportunities for Central America”
World Bank, Central America Department and Office of the Chief Economist, Latin America and Caribbean Region, 2005.

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/LACEXT/Resources/258553-1119648763980/DR_CAFTA_Challenges_Opport_Final_en.pdf

 
2

C. Fred Bergsten
“Competitive Liberalization and Global Free Trade: A Vision for the Early 21st Century”
IIE Working Paper 96-15, 1996, 17pp.

http://www.iie.com/publications/wp/wp.cfm?ResearchID=171

 
3

Eric T. Miller
"Achievement and Challenges of Trade Capacity Building: A Practitioners Analysis of the CAFTA Process and its Lessons for the Multilateral System"
Inter-American Development Bank, INTAL-ITD Occasional Paper 32, (October 2005)

http://www.iadb.org/intal/aplicaciones/publicaciones/Miller.pdf

 
4

Erik Peterson
“CAFTA: Paving the Way for the FTAA. Labor Education Service”
University of Minnesota, March 24, 2005.
Booklet: http://www.d.umn.edu/~epeters5/0Guide.pdf
Powerpoint Presentation:

http://www.d.umn.edu/~epeters5/Uathe%20way.ppt

 
5

Kimberly Ann Elliott
“Labor Standards, Development, and CAFTA”
IIE Policy Brief PB04-2, March 2004, 11 pp.

http://www.iie.com/publications/pb/pb04-2.pdfDevelopment%2C%20and%20CAFTA%22

 
6

Sandra Polaski
"How to Build a Better Trade Pact with Central America"
Issue Brief Trade, Equity and Development Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (July, 2003).

http://www.ceip.org//pdf/TED_CAFTA_Polaski_July_2003.pdf
 

 

 
 
B.) DR CAFTA and the Environment
1

Committee on Ways and Means
“Final Environmental Review of the Dominican Republic-Central America - United States Free Trade Agreement”
U.S. House of Representatives, June 2005.

http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA%22

 
2

Congressional Research Service (CRS)
“CAFTA: Challenges for Sub Regional Integration”
Report for Congress April 25, 2003.

 http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/20484.pdf

 
3

Clare Ribando
“DR CAFTA: Regional Issues”
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Report for Congress July 8, 2005.

http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/issues%22 

 
4

Frances B. Smith
“CAFTA DR: Can Trade Agreements Hold Up to Special Interest Siege?”
CEI Issue Analysis 2005 No. 6. PDF:

http://www.cei.org/pdf/4561.pdf

 
5

Katie Harr
“NAFTA, CAFTA-DR and the Role of the Environment”
Council on Hemispheric Affairs, 2006.

http://www.cohanafta--and-the-role-of-the-environment/

 
6

Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
“Fair Trade or Free Trade?
Understanding CAFTA” 15 Feb. 2005.

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu//cafta_briefing_final_dec03.pdf
 
 

 

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