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Interpreting central bank independence in Mexico
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Trade, WTO and the environment
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The Mexican economy snaps back
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Beyond the border: Japan's economy still looks recessionary
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Understanding the Texas unemployment rate
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Imperfect information and the Community Reinvestment Act
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Hey, Mr. Greenspan, can you spare a dollar?
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The New Mexico economy: outlook for 1989
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Is Latin America saying adios to market-friendly reforms?
This issue of the Economic Letter finds that Latin America hasn't lost faith in open markets, despite recent left-leaning election results. ; In analyzing several economic policy measures for 12 nations that make up the bulk of the Latin American population, authors William C. Gruben and Richard Alm find no wholesale erosion of market-based policies outside of Argentina, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, and most countries are running in place.
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Was NAFTA behind Mexico's high maquiladora growth?
Although Mexico's maquiladora system is an important and well-recognized component of Mexico-U.S. trade, the connection between the acceleration in maquiladora growth and NAFTA is less clearly understood. A broad cross section of observers -- including journalists, political activists, industry analysts, and academics -- argue that Mexico's maquiladoras have been strongly influenced by NAFTA and have grown rapidly as a result. William C. Gruben finds no such connection when he tests for NAFTA's contribution to fluctuations in maquiladora employment. Instead, he finds that maquiladoras' ...