Essays about: "the North American Free Trade Agreement"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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1. Peasant autonomy : seed-saving practices of maize in rural Jalisco, Mexico
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : The debate of maize seeds in Mexico has been, and is, intense and divided, with large seed companies on one side, mass-producing improved maize seeds and lobbying for the introduction of transgenic maize cultivation, and on the other side activists wanting to conserve and protect the native maize seeds. Farmers in Mexico have been facing large changes since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement. READ MORE
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2. Drilling the Black Blood of Nations : Mexican energy policies in 1938 and 2013 juxtaposed to the investment factor
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Romanska och klassiska institutionenAbstract : The work briefly summarizes, the analysis emerged by studying two particular moments in Mexican history with regards to its energy policies: with principal focus on the years of oil expropriation in 1938 and the promulgation of the Energy Reform of December of 2013 with the addition of exploring how the seek for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), appears as a factor of international economics that has influenced these processes. Since Enrique Peña Nieto arrived to power, the energy model of the Mexican Republic have experimented its biggest transformations after seventy-five years of protectionism. READ MORE
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3. Multinational corporations in Mexico
University essay from Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle (HOS)Abstract : In this thesis I have examined the role of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in fuelling hostcountries economic developments. By looking closer into Mexico and the case of automobile industry which has been historically the subject of control of foreign affiliates I observed coinciding patterns. READ MORE
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4. Wage Convergence : The case of Mexico and the United States of America as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement
University essay from Internationella HandelshögskolanAbstract : As discussed in the factor-price equalization theorem, prices, and thus wages, tend to equalize as a result of trade between two countries. The focus of this thesis is to perform a time series regression in order to evaluate whether wage convergence has taken place between Mexico and the United Sates of America due to the establishment of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. READ MORE
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5. Free trade in developing countries : What are the predictable long run effects of an implementation of the CAFTA for the different sectors of the Nicaraguan economy?
University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaperAbstract : Ever since the planning stage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the eighties there has been an incentive to create a free trade agreement with all the American countries. The next natural step for the USA has been the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). READ MORE
