Product Description: Developing countries have joined the rapidly growing global system of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past years. The drive towards regional integration has advanced with the formation of new markets and groups in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Oceania with few developing countries remaining outside these regional schemes...read more

Product Description: This book examines how the IDB and the ADB support the provision of regional public goods (RPGs) in Latin America and Asia, respectively. RPGs are products, services, regulatory systems or policy regimes that generate shared benefits for participating countries in such areas as health, education, trade, and infrastructure...read more

Product Description: Latin America has been pursuing intense structural reforms since the mid-1980s. The reforms have been a primary instrument for achieving the development goals of stable and higher rates of economic growth, more social equity, and a solid democratic setting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Los procesos de integración económica regional están siendo, una vez más, uno de los grandes protagonistas de la política económica en la mayoría de los países de América Latina y el Caribe. Las Américas sin barreras documenta de forma detallada y rigurosa los procesos de negociación de los acuerdos más importantes firmados durante los años noventa...read more