Posts Tagged ‘
trade ’
Feb 14th, 2013 |
By Jonathan Grabinsky
Israel Hernández Seguin, Deputy Director of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI), discusses bilateral relations between the United States and Mexico
Posted in International Affairs, Policy in Practice |
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Tags: Asia, Barack Obama, Border Security, Central America, COMEXI, Congress, DACA, Deferred Action, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Deportation, Drug Trafficking, Drugs, Enrique Peña Nieto, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, immigration, Immigration Enforcement, Israel Hernández Seguin, Judicial Reform, Marijuana, Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, Mexico, Migration Policy Institute, North America, North American Development Bank, President Barack Obama, Southern Border, trade, Trans Pacific Partnership, Unauthorized Immigrants, US-Mexico Border, War on Drugs
May 17th, 2012 |
By Lutfi Anggara
The secret to international food security is agricultural productivity, policy predictability, and openness to trade.
Posted in International Affairs, Research in Brief |
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Tags: 2006-2008 Food Crisis, Africa, Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food Crises, food security, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Sustainability, trade, United Nations, World Food Programme
Apr 20th, 2012 |
By Mike Sitkowski
U.S. metros, the nation’s exporters, are driving economic recovery.
Posted in Research in Brief, Urban Affairs |
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Tags: Antonio R. Villaraigosa, Cities, Conference of Mayors, Economy, Economy Recovery, Employment forecast, Exports, financial crisis, Global Insight, Great Recession, IHS Global Insight, Imports, Poverty, recession, trade, U.S. Conference of Mayors, unemployment, Urban, Urban Affairs, Urban growth
Apr 10th, 2012 |
By Bassam Aoun
The oil embargo against Iran will hurt that country’s economy. But it could also have adverse effects in the EU.
Posted in International Affairs, Research in Brief |
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Tags: Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, EU, European economy, European Union, Exports, Greece, Hillary Clinton, Imports, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Threat, Nuclear Weapons, oil, oil embargo, Ruth Hanau Santini, Sanctions, trade
Apr 9th, 2012 |
By Matthew Stedl
A leading regional expert says that the Midwest needs to cooperate, innovate and invest—three things it simply isn’t doing well.
Posted in Policy in Practice |
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Tags: Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Free Trade, Globalization, midwest, NAFTA, Richard Longworth, trade
Apr 4th, 2012 |
By James Ahrens
Lots of people support agricultural subsidies. Too many for a collective action story to explain the support away.
Posted in International Affairs, Research in Brief |
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Tags: Agricultural Subsidies, Earmarks, Farming, Free Trade, Ikuo Kume, International Organization, Japan, Megumi Naoi, Pew, Protectionism, Subsidies, trade
Mar 13th, 2012 |
By Murtuza Somjee
Trade liberalization couldn’t raise wages, could it?
Posted in International Affairs, Research in Brief |
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Tags: Commerce, Donald David, General Equilibrium, Globalization, Harvard, Labor, Marc Melitz, Mary Amiti, New-New Trade Theory, Protectionism, Tariffs, trade, Trade Liberalization, Wages
Feb 19th, 2012 |
By James Ahrens
Two economists find that trade theory gets wage inequality wrong.
Posted in International Affairs, Research in Brief |
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Tags: Heckscher-Ohlin, inequality, Labor, Lawrence Edwards, Paul Krugman, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Robert Lawrence, Stolpher-Samuelson, trade
