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March 28, 2003|Volume 31, Number 23



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The success of NAFTA to be debated at conference

The pros and cons of free trade in the Americas will be the focus of "The Hemispheric Trade Debate," a Yale-sponsored conference to be held Wednesday-Friday, April 2-4, in New Haven.

"Nearly a decade has passed since the negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Yet debates continue to rage in the U.S., Canada and Mexico over how successful NAFTA has been," says conference organizer Raphael Folsom '06.

"In the spring of 2001 President George W. Bush stated that he hoped to extend the arrangement to the rest of the hemisphere, calling for a new 'Free Trade Area of the Americas.' As negotiations move forward, 'The Hemispheric Trade Debate' at Yale hopes to foster public discussion of the FTAA initiative by bringing together leading academicians and policymakers from around the region to discuss the consequences of such an agreement," adds Folsom.

The conference will open Wednesday, April 2, at 7 p.m. with a welcoming address by Gustav Ranis, the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics and the Henry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS).

Panel sessions on Thursday and Friday will include "Hemispheric Trade and the Lessons of History," "The Environment," "Democracy and Human Rights," "Labor," "Winners and Losers" and "The Politics and Future of Hemispheric Trade."

The event will held in the York Room of The Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155 Temple St. It is free and open to the public.

In addition to YCIAS, "The Hemispheric Trade Debate" is sponsored by The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, the Yale Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, the Economic Growth Center, the Sustainable Americas Project, the Orville Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, the Department of Economics and the Department of History. Faculty advisers include Ranis, Dan Esty, Gil Joseph and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes.

For more information, contact Beatriz Riefkohl, The Yale Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, at (203) 432-3420.


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