North American Free Trade Agreement: Opportunities and Challenges

by Khosrow Fatemi

Overview

This book is a collection of timely and detailed articles on the North American Free Trade Agreement written by experts in the field who examine the Canadian, US and Mexican points of view. The scholars provide an overview as well as their insights of how NAFTA impacts on macroeconomic issues, national perspectives and bilateral issues, cross-border and industry-specific issues and the environment. This book serves as an excellent primary source of information on many of the significant aspects of NAFTA.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349229789
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 1993
Pages:	301
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface - Acknowledgement - Notes on the Contributors - PART 1: OVERVIEW - Introduction; K.Fatemi - The Coming Debate on NAFTA; S.Weintraub - PART 2: MACROECONOMIC ISSUES - The North American Free Trade Agreement: Comparisons with Southern EC Enlargement; R.C.Shelburne - The Linking Giant: An Analysis and Policy Implications of the Canada-Mexico-US Free Trade Area; M.R.Vaghefi - North American Trade in the Post Debt Crises Era; B.W.Poulson & M.Penubarti - PART 3: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND BILATERAL ISSUES - Free Trade Restructuring in Canadian Manufacturing: An Initial Assessment; R.Grinspun - The North American Free Trade Agreement: A Canadian Perspective; E.R.Bruning - Mexico in a North American Free Trade Area; J.A.McKinney - Facing Up to Mexico; P.Morici - An Empirical Estimation of the Level of Intra-Industry Trade Between Mexico and the United States; J.G.Gonzalez & A.Velez - US and Mexican Foreign Exchange Risk Management Techniques; K.R.Jesswein, S.B.Salter & L.M.Smith - PART 4: CROSS-BORDER AND INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC ISSUES - Maquiladora Employee Turnover and Job Training; J.M.Lane - Index