NAFTA As a Model of Development: The Benefits and Costs of Merging High- and Low-Wage Areas Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	About the Editors
	About the Authors
1	The NAFTA Development Model of Combining High- and Low-Wage Areas: An Introduction	1
2	The NAFTA and Wage Convergence: A Case of Winners and Losers	21
3	The NAFTA, a Social Charter, and Economic Growth	27
4	The NAFTA's Winners and Losers: A Focus on Investment	37
5	The NAFTA and Downward Wage Pressure	41
6	Dynamic Integration, Foreign Investment, and Open Regionalism in the NAFTA and the Americas	46
7	Expanding the NAFTA? From Early Pan-Americanism to Hemispheric Economic Integration	59
8	The NAFTA and Developing Countries	77
9	Dynamic Gains from Intra-regional Trade in Latin America	85
10	A Critical View of a NAFTA Including Mexico	106
11	The NAFTA: A Mexican Search for Development	113
12	Mexican Economic Development and the NAFTA	129
13	Mexico's Interests and the NAFTA	133
14	Canada's Interests and the NAFTA	140
15	The Development Impact of the NAFTA: A Canadian Perspective	145
16	Global Trends and the Impact on Business in Latin America in the 1990s	159
17	A Labor Perspective on the NAFTA	174
18	The Sector Advisory Process and the NAFTA	178
19	Trade Liberalization and Mexico	182
20	Can the EC Social Charter Be a Model for the NAFTA?	188
21	The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations and the NAFTA	195
	Index	201