scholarly journals The Impact of Policy Measures on Trade in Services in Latin America and the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Trachtenberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Bilateral Trade ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trade Flows ◽  
Bilateral Trade Flows ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Impact

This paper uses data on policy measures affecting services operation and trade to document and estimate the impact of different types of policy measures on services exports and imports, with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. It finds that market-entry measures are important to both total services exports and imports in the region and bilateral trade flows with the United States, while measures relating to the operation of service providers are important for bilateral trade flows with the United States.

scholarly journals The Impact of the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Trade between Canada and the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol COVID-19 ◽  
pp. e2021028
Author(s):  
Miguel Cardoso ◽  
Brandon Malloy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Bilateral Trade ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trade Flows ◽  
Standard Deviation Increase ◽  
Agriculture Industry ◽  
Bilateral Trade Flows ◽  
Canadian Provinces ◽  
The Impact

We examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted trade between Canada and the United States, using a novel dataset on monthly bilateral trade flows between Canadian provinces and U.S. states, merged with COVID-19 health data. Our results show that a one-standard deviation increase in COVID-19 severity (case levels, hospitalizations, deaths) in a Canadian province leads to a fall of 3.1 to 4.9% in exports and a 6.7% to 9.1% fall in imports. Decomposing our analysis by industry, we determine that trade in the manufacturing industry was most negatively affected by the pandemic, while the agriculture industry suffered the least disruption to trade flows. Our descriptive evidence suggests that lockdowns may have also reduced Canadian exports and imports. However, while our regression coefficients are consistent with that finding, they are not statistically significant, perhaps because of the lack of variation due to similar timing in the imposition of restrictions across provinces.

Remittances to Latin America will slow this year

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
The United States ◽  
Poor Growth ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Impact

Subject Remittance growth in Latin America. Significance Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) grew almost 10% last year, with Mexico registering another year of record inflows, driven by strong economic growth and low unemployment in the United States. Impacts Strong remittance growth is helping to counter the impact of poor growth in many LAC countries. Remittances from Venezuelan migrants are helping to alleviate the suffering of relatives there, possibly to the government's benefit. Sending costs remain high in LAC, but migrants are embracing lower-cost digital services.

Reciprocity in Retrospect: A Historical Inquest of Bilateralism in U.S. Trade Policy

2012 ◽  
pp. 5-33
Author(s):  
Treb Allen ◽  
Stephen Meardon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Trade Policy ◽  
Gravity Model ◽  
Bilateral Trade ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trade Flows ◽  
Most Favored Nation ◽  
Preferential Trade ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Bilateral Trade Flows

Several varieties of bilateral trade arrangements were tried in the United States from independence to 1909. They included most-favored-nation (MFN) treaties of the conditional and unconditional varieties, MFN treaties in which the conditionality was implicit, preferential trade arrangements, and agreements of a different nature authorized by the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 and the Dingley Act of 1897. This essay is an inquest of the varieties of U.S. trade arrangements and their effects on bilateral trade flows. It surveys the several varieties, discusses the circumstances of their usage, and uses a gravity model to estimate empirically their effects. The empirical results show that bilateralism's effects on trade flows are contingent upon its varieties and historical circumstances.

scholarly journals The impact of COVID-19 on the well-being and cognition of older adults living in the United States and Latin America

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 100848
Author(s):  
Ganesh M. Babulal ◽  
Valeria L. Torres ◽  
Daisy Acosta ◽  
Cinthya Agüero ◽  
Sara Aguilar-Navarro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Impact

Afterword

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Ewing
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Universal Negro Improvement Association ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Labor Radicalism ◽  
Political Association ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Garvey Movement

This concluding chapter reflects on the success of Garveyism in both the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. It considers how the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) had offered a powerful ideological and political vehicle for African activists during the dark years of interwar European rule, and how the impact of Garveyism continues to be felt in the continent. In the United States, as in Africa, the efforts of American Garveyites to construct vibrant organizational containers during an inauspicious decade resonated through the years. Finally, in the Caribbean, the return of labor radicalism in the mid-1930s both eclipsed established modes of Garveyist political association and boasted a leadership that had been nurtured within the Garvey movement.

16. US foreign policy in Latin America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Dunkerley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Central America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
Monroe Doctrine ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines US foreign policy in Latin America and the historical evolution of US relations with the region. It first considers the Monroe Doctrine and manifest destiny, which sought to contain European expansion and to justify that of the United States under an ethos of hemispherism, before discussing the projection of US power beyond its frontiers in the early twentieth century. It then explores the United States’ adoption of a less unilateral approach during the depression of the 1930s and an aggressively ideological approach in the wake of the Cuban Revolution. It also analyzes US policy towards the left in Central America, where armed conflict prevailed in the 1980s, and in South America, where the Washington Consensus brought an end to the anti-European aspects of the Monroe Doctrine by promoting globalization. Finally, it looks at the impact of the Cold War on US policy towards Latin America.

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