Geo-economic Factors of an Intensification Development of Laos in Association of Southeast Asian Nation Conditions by Lyudmila V. Shkvarya, Andrey V. Strygin, Vasilij I. Rusakovich

“…Among them – the deepening of regional economic integration processes in different regions of the world – in Western Europe (EU), North America (NAFTA), the South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). The ASEAN countries occupy a strategic location on the route from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, being at the crossroads connecting the Pacific basin to the Middle East, Africa and Europe. …”
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Arquitectura industrial y reestructuración de la industria automotriz en el distrito federal (Ciudad de México) 1993-2010 by Selva Leonor Daville Landero

“…Starting in 1986 with the unilateral withdrawal from the protective tariff system, and reinforced in 1994 when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into force, the policy of reorienting the Mexican economy toward the outside world was accelerated, especially towards the US and North America. …”
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Determinantes de las exportaciones chilenas con un modelo gravitacional 2002-2016 by Darcy Fuenzalida - O’Shee, Iván Valenzuela - Klagges, Bárbara Valenzuela - Klagges, Andrea Urrutia - Mundaca

“…El estudio permite concluir que los acuerdos de Chile con MERCOSUR, CA y China no son significativos en ningún grupo de bienes; el acuerdo con miembros del NAFTA presenta efecto negativo en las manufacturas y alimentos, bebidas y tabaco y; con países de la UE, efecto positivo sólo en materias primas de origen agrícola. …”
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On the Nature of the Border: Trash Thresholds in Luis Alberto Urrea’s By the Lake of Sleeping Children by Micah McKay

“…In this essay, I undertake an analysis of Luis Alberto Urrea’s non-fiction book By the Lake of Sleeping Children (1996), which portrays a community of trash pickers and orphans in Tijuana at a moment in which the effects of NAFTA and an increasingly militarized approach to policing the U.S.…”
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Integration processes in CIS and international experience in economic and political cooperation by Valeriy Anatolyevich Tsvetkov, Marat Serikovich Baydurin

“…On the example of the European Union (EU), the North American free trade agreement (NAFTA), the Asia-Pacific economic cooperation (APEC), which are the centers of global integration, which focused on large-scale economic, financial, scientific-technological and human resources, by their importance comparable to their political, military-strategic values, analyzed the stages of formation and development of the integration of the unions further directions of their strategic development.…”
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Consumo de los alimentos y su vinculación con el lugar de compra, en la zona norte de México by Danae Duana Ávila

“…Supermarkets acquire economic relevance.For this reason, this research provides a point of comparison before and after the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signature, since it is assumed that some changes in the patterns of consumption of Mexican households have occurred, highlighting changes in the places where the food is acquired. …”
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Free Trade and Pollution in the Manufacturing Industry in Mexico: A Verification of the Inverse Kuznets Curve at a State Level by Elena Catalina Jáuregui Nolen, José de Jesús Salazar Cantú, Raymundo Cruz Rodríguez Guajardo, Héctor González García

“…The objective of this study is to see if there is a relationship between the pollution generated by the manufacturing industry in each of Mexico’s 32 states and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This was done via panel data regression models using information on pollution, income, and degree of trade from each of the states for the years 1993 and 2000. …”
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Globalización, marginalidad y espacios en Desierto sonoro de Valeria Luiselli y Páradais de Fernanda Melchor by Israel Pérez Medina

“…In this essay, I will focus on how the comparative study of two of their novels, Desierto Sonoro (Luiselli 2020) and Páradais (Melchor 2021) will reveal the effects of the neoliberal policies mplemented in Mexico after the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has transcended the economic dimension and its impact is felt in new manifestations of marginality, spaciality and social interactions.…”
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European Union — Mexico: The Conclusion of a “New Generation” Trade Agreement by T. V. Sidorenko

“…They also argue that Mexico is a desirable market for the European companies, given the size of its economy, its population, and its membership in NAFTA. Therefore, the entry into force of the modernised agreement will allow the intensification of the trade and investment relations between the partners. …”
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Quebec’s Economic and Commercial Linkages with the United States, 1994–2017 by Earl H. Fry

“…The topic demonstrates the impact of three major forces on Quebec’s economic and commercial ties with the US: (1) the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which became operational in 1994 and was fully implemented over a 15-year period; (2) the onerous security policies put in place by the US government in the decade following the horrific events of 11 September 2001; and (3) changing economic circumstances in the United States ranging from robust growth to the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. …”
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Trade Policy by Ashford, Nicholas A.

“…The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the agreements administered by the World Trade Organization, particularly the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), were adopted to promote international trade and increase the economic benefits therefrom. …”
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Modelling Reality: The Need for Both Inter-temporal Optimization and Stickiness in Models for Policy-Making. by McKibbin, W, Vines, D

“…In particular, it is shown that the approach of these models gives insights into the adjustment into a number of historical episodes that are not well explained by simple macroeconomic frameworks: Reaganomics in the 1980s; German reunification in the early 1990s; fiscal consolidation in Europe in the 1990s; the formation of NAFTA; the Asian Crisis; and the current productivity boom in the USA. …”

ESTUDIO DE LA MEZCLA DE GASOLINA CON 10% DE ETANOL ANHIDRO. EVALUACIÓN DE PROPIEDADES FISICOQUÍMICAS by Jaime Torres, Daniel Molina, Carlos Pinto, Fernando Rueda

“…Para el ajuste del RVP del combustible base, se diseñó y construyó una despojadora de vapores livianos por arrastre con nitrógeno, y para el ajuste del IAD del combustible base se realizaron mezclas con nafta virgen, para IAD más bajos, y con nafta craqueada y alquilato de alto octano, para IAD más altos. …”
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A common place is no my place: artistic relations between Mexico – United States in a globalized world by Daniel Enrique Montero Fayad

“…This form of private investment was tied up directly with the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Mexico, Canada and United States, which terms imposed United States’ conception of culture as an industrial one. …”
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La aglomeración y la elección de localización de la inversión extranjera directa: nueva evidencia de la IED en manufacturas en México by Jacob A. Jordaan

“… Se estiman modelos de localización utilizando un modelo logit condicional para identificar las características regionales que influyeron en México para la elección del lugar hacia donde fluyó mayor IED en manufacturas en la segunda mitad de los 1990s, después de la creación del NAFTA. Los principales resultados son tres: 1) la demanda regional, los costos laborales, la calidad del trabajo, las economías de aglomeración y la distancia geográfica hasta la Ciudad de México y Estados Unidos son factores de localización importantes, 2) la decisión de localización de las empresas orientadas a la exportación no se ve afectada por la demanda regional y 3) se encontró evidencia de que las economías de aglomeración tienen una dimensión espacial.   …”
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Suggestions for an East Asian Monetary Union: Focusing on the Effects of Monetary Integration on Bilateral Trade by Min-Chang Ko, Byung-Taik Cho

“…For this purpose, we analyze with gravity model changes of the bilateral trade among countries of EU, NAFTA, and East Asia. A distinctive feature of this model is that it includes the dummy variables that show the cultural intimacy among North-East Asian countries, Asian NIEs countries, and East Asian countries (North-East Asian and ASEAN countries). …”
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Financial Disclosure and International Capital Mobility in Latin America by Luis Gustavo do Lago Quinteiro, Otavio R. de Medeiros

“…However, whereas Argentina and Brazil show low levels of capital mobility, Mexico stands out with a high capital mobility, which we reckon could be accounted for by the country’s trade and investment connections with the US and by its participation in the NAFTA.…”
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AUTOMÓVILES Y LOCOMOTORAS CON AIRES DE POTROSFUTURISMO EN LA LITERATURA MONTEVIDEANA DE ALFREDO MARIO FERREIRO by Verónica Lucila Cohen

“…El poeta uruguayo Alfredo Mario Ferreiro escribe su primer libro El hombre que se comió un autobús (Poemas con olor a nafta) en 1927. Un año antes, Tomasso Marinetti, creador del movimiento futurista había visitado en Río de la Plata como parte de una gira latinoamericana. …”
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Waters transfer laws and its discrepancies, a brief overview in some neighbouring countries, including discussion on Malaysia-Singapore by Rozlinda Mohamed Fadzil, Haniff Ahamat, Rasyikah Md. Khalid

“…In the case of bulk transfers of fresh water, private contractual remedies and negotiations between the parties or remedies available in public international law were reviewed, rather than the remedies provided for in trade agreements disputes such as in NAFTA. The latter part discussed about GATS and remedies in public international laws pertaining to water ownership and water transfer laws.…”
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A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE BENEFITS OF TRADE AGREEMENTS ON AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS AND THE IMPACT OF THE 2008 GREAT RECESSION by David Karemera, Mathew Guah, Gerald Smalls, Louis Whitesides

“…The results reveal that the ASEAN, EAC, and EU associations were more effective in generating agricultural trade benefits for members than the rest of the associations. The NAFTA, MERCOSUR, and SADC associations generated little or no benefits for members. …”
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