03098cam a22004454a 4500 433 The World Bank 20260707185131.0 m d cr cn||||||||| 020129s1998 dcu o i001 0 eng 082134272X 29.99 USD 9780821342725 10.1596/0-8213-4272-X (The World Bank)433 167025 138277 Burki, Shahid Javed 36761 Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1997: [electronic resource] Trade, towards open regionalism:proceedings of a conference held in Montevideo, Uruguay / Shahid Javed Burki Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 1998 1 online resource (285 p.) This third Annual Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) focuses on trade liberalization policy, specifically "open regionalism," a term coined to describe the fact that 1) regionalism has gone hand in hand with unilateral trade opening:statistics on tariff and non-tariff measures affecting imports show that protectionist policies have been dismantled in the major LAC countries during the last decade; 2) regionalism has gone hand in hand with a substantial liberalization of investment regimes:provisions, including national treatment provisions, in regional trading arrangements show that several LAC countries treat foreign direct investment on exactly the same footing as domestic investment; and 3) most LAC countries are willing to participate in building a hemispheric free-trade zone and have been active, pro-liberalization members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Speeches emphasized the political returns from trade integration:reciprocal lock-in, alliances created among pro-reform factions, pro-integration movements across countries, civil society integration, more-likely peaceful settlements to disputes, and general advancement of harmony in the Western Hemisphere through atmospherics, through positive incentive structures, and through cross-country coalitions. Because these positive linkages are largely implicit and not unduly burdensome, they make regional integration consistent with convergence toward global trade integration. Description based on print version record. Economic Theory and Research Emerging Markets 200764 Free Trade 14236 International Economics & Trade 204361 Law and Development 204344 Macroeconomics and Economic Growth Private Sector Development Public Sector Development 204245 Trade Law 204579 Trade Policy 204580 Burki, Shahid Javed 36761 Calvo, Sara 204581 Perry, Guillermo E. 204582 Print Version: 9780821342725 World Bank e-Library. http://elibrary.worldbank.org/content/book/9780821342725 EBK 167025 138277