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Fundación Alternativas
Memorandos - Documentos de la Fundación "Alternativas".Se trata de un análisis breve de carácter prescriptivo sobre un asunto de actualidad relativo a la política exterior española, orientado a la toma de decisiones de los responsables políticos, que incluye un diagnóstico, escenarios posibles, opciones y propuestas, de una extensión aproximada de 1500 palabras.
Still Waiting for the Farm Boom: Family Farmers Worse Off Despite High Prices
To listen to the headlines, the boom times roll on for U.S. farmers. Crop prices
are up again, resuming a price surge that began in late 2006. U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) officials feed the euphoria with each revised estimate of the farm sector’s economic indicators. The most recent projects a record $99 billion in net cash farm income for the sector this year. “In five of the last eight years, we’ve seen the highest net cash farm income numbers since the nineteenseventies, even adjusting for inflation,” said Joe Glauber, USDA’s Chief Economist, at the agency’s annual Agricultural Outlook Forum in late February.
Trading Away Financial Stability in Colombia: Capital Controls and the US - Colombia Trade Agreement
The United States-Colombia Trade Agreement between the United States and Colombia was signed before the global financial crisis. As Congress and the President convene to rework the agreement, it will be important to ensure that the agreement is designed so that it given both nations the flexibility to put in place macro-prudential regulations to prevent and mitigate financial crisis.
The IMF, Capital Controls and Developing Countries
Continuing with its rethink on capital controls, the International Monetary Fund has now formally suggested that there may be situations when developing countries can gain from placing regulations on the inward flow of foreign capital. However, the new “advice” comes with so many conditions and guidelines that the developing countries have rejected the recommendations and sent the IMF back to the drawing board. Rather than telling developing countries what to do and when, the IMF should perhaps focus more on helping governments enforce capital controls and it should stress the need for the global coordination of those controls.
Investment Treaty Arbitration and Developing Countries: A Re-Appraisal
There is an ongoing debate about bilateral investment treaties (BITs) – and investor-state arbitration, in particular – between those who maintain that BITs encourage investment in developing countries by providing enforceable rights and protections for investors, and those who suspect that these new rights and protections have a chilling effect on regulation for public and environmental welfare and actually hinder development. For years, both ―camps‖ have drawn heavily upon anecdotal evidence and observations to support their view, as no systematic, comprehensive study of empirical data on investment arbitrations had been undertaken. To fill this void, legal scholar Susan Franck has evaluated the criticisms of investment arbitration based on empirical studies of published or known disputes (Franck 2009; Franck 2007). These efforts produced helpful data and initiated a productive discussion of these issues. However, the results and conclusions that can be drawn from Franck’s work are more limited and warrant more nuance than Franck and others so far have taken into account. Franck’s work is now widely used to support the notion that developing countries do not disproportionately ―lose‖ under the investment arbitration regime. Such a conclusion does not appear to be supported by Franck’s data. This article analyzes Franck’s work to show where differing conclusions emerge. We show that: 1) there is a lack of adequate sample composition and size to conduct rigorous empirical work from which an analyst could draw such bold lessons; 2) discounting the fact that developing countries are subject to a disproportionate number of claims is not to be overlooked, especially when looking at claims by the United States; and 3) relative to government budgets and in per capita terms developing countries pay significantly more in damages than developed nations do.
Restructuring Greece's debt crisis
Greece may have managed to kick the can down the road once again, but will eventually have to restructure its debt. If Greece or any other nation restructures, they will find that one of the most glaring gaps in global economic governance is the lack of an agreed-upon regime for resolving debt crises. New research shows that in the absence of conscious global economic governance, we may be left with a de facto regime: the thousands of international trade and investment treaties that have jurisdiction over government debt. Just ask Argentina.
Why Agustín Carstens should not be next head of the IMF
If there is one good thing about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn debacle, it is that the scandal has put the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the global spotlight. Surprised were many to learn that there has been a longstanding and non-democratic tradition whereby a European always heads the IMF (and an American heads the World Bank).
The Future of North American Trade Policy
Seventeen years after NAFTA was enacted, there is widespread agreement that the trade treaty among the United States, Canada and Mexico has fallen short of its stated goals. While proponents credit the agreement with stimulating the flow of goods, services, and investment among the North American countries, critics in all three countries argue that this has not brought improvements in the standards of living of most people. Rather than triggering a convergence across the three nations, NAFTA has accentuated the economic and regulatory asymmetries that had existed prior to the agreement.
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| 20 al 23 de marzo de 2012. Santiago de Chile.
Objetivos del Congreso:
Fortalecer el municipalismo latinoamericano, promoviendo una mayor coordinación política y programática entre las autoridades locales de la región.
Brindar un espacio para que autoridades locales de la región, desarrollen acuerdos de cooperación recíproca en aquellas áreas prioritarias del desarrollo local.
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