Costa Rica Five Years After CAFTA-DR: Assessing Early Results - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1464805687 ISBN 13 : 9781464805684

Editeur : World Bank Publications, 2015

Synopsis

For Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic-Central America free trade agreement (CAFTA-DR) has been more than a trade agreement. Costa Rica has used trade liberalization and promotion of international trade as a core development strategy for decades. CAFTA-DR consolidated benefits that had previously been unilaterally extended under the Caribbean Basin Initiative into a multilateral free trade agreement, providing a more stable environment for trade relationships. Beyond just being a trade agreement, CAFTA-DR opened up state monopolies in telecommunications and insurance, which polarized the country. No other trade agreement has generated as much controversy about the potential impacts on the economy. Following a referendum, with a small margin in favor of the agreement, Costa Rica was the last member country to ratify CAFTA-DR in 2009. Given the controversy at the time, Costa Rica Five Years after CAFTA-DR: Assessing Early Results takes stock of the early impacts of CAFTA-DR during the five years since its ratification, addressing the following questions: - What actual changes did the agreement bring about, and what was their context? - What was the impact of those changes on trade and foreign direct investment flows? - How have the high-tech, insurance, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical sectors been impacted?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Bank Publications
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1464805687
• ISBN 13: 9781464805684
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Éditeur: Koehler-Geib Friederike N., Sanchez Susana M.
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