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Understanding CAFTA: perspectives from all sides
Implementation of the Central American Free Trade Agreement creates new opportunities for U.S. companies. Because exports drive growth in the Southeast, gaining access to these new markets should enhance regional growth and development.
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Building a better world: infrastructure's role in economic growth
Infrastructures everywhere face strain from globalization, population growth, and urbanization. Infrastructure needs among countries vary, but infrastructure's importance to economic growth, improved public health, and poverty reduction is universal.
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Spanning the Western Hemisphere: Free Trade Area of the Americas
Thirty-four countries in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean would make up the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) if negotiations currently under way are successful in establishing this new trading bloc. While the FTAA would bring a number of benefits to its members, the economies involved differ greatly in development and structure, and finding consensus will be challenging.
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Exterminating the Y2K bug in banking
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Georgia coast braces for G-8 whirlwind
With the G-8 Summit in June, representatives of the world?s leading economies?along with vast media coverage?will converge on an isolated barrier island off Georgia?s coast. Local leaders are hoping to capitalize on the publicity windfall while avoiding the strife that has marred some past summits.
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Nation and southeast set for modest recovery in 2002
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Housing and the subprime mortgage market
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Glut of office space plagues Atlanta as tenants disappear
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Inflation: the central challenge for U.S. monetary policymakers
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Fiscal policy: What a difference a recession makes