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Globalization Publications Library

Welcome to GDAE's Globalization and Sustainable Development Program publications library.  Here you will find all of the books, articles, reports, and other publications produced by researchers affiliated with the Globalization and Sustainable Development Program.  They are listed below in reverse chronological order, most recent publications first. 

You can also go to the pages for GDAE's main research areas to get publications on those topics: Foreign Investment, Agriculture in the Global Economy, Mexico under NAFTA, China in Latin America, Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas.

You can also see publications by the Globalization Program's  Timothy A. Wise, sorted by topic on his C.V., as well as Kevin P. Gallagher's regular Guardian columns on Globalization and Development.

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Books:

Rethinking Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America

Edited by Kevin P. Gallagher and Daniel Chudnovsky, Anthem Press, 2009.

La Promesa y los Peligros de la Liberalización del Comercio Agrícola: Lecciones de América Latina

Por Mamerto Pérez, Sergio Schlesinger, y Timothy A. Wise, Asociación de Istituciones de Promoción y Educación (AIPE), La Paz, Bolivia, 2009.
Available online (PDF)

Handbook on Trade and the Environment

Edited by Kevin P. Gallagher, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008.



The Political Economy of Hemispheric Integration: Responding to Globalization in the Americas

Edited by Diego Sánchez-Ancochea and Kenneth C. Shadlen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico's Silicon Valley

Kevin P. Gallagher and Lyuba Zarsky, The MIT Press, 2007.
Watch an interview with Kevin Gallagher about The Enclave Economy, along with economist and Leontief Prize winner Ha-Joon Chang

Putting Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in the WTO and IFIs

Edited by Kevin P. Gallagher, Zed Books, 2005.

Globalización y medio ambiente: Lecciones desde las Américas

Edited by Hernán Blanco, Luciana Togeiro de Almeida y Kevin P. Gallagher, RIDES-GDAE, 2005.

Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond

Kevin P. Gallagher, Stanford University Press, 2004.

International Investment for Sustainable Development

Lyuba Zarsky, editor, Earthscan, 2004.

Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico

Timothy A. Wise, Hilda Salazar, and Laura Carlsen (eds.), Kumarian Press and Editorial Miguel Angel Porrua, 2003. (Published in Spanish as Enfrentando la Globalizacion: Respuestas Sociales a la Integracion Economica de Mexico, Laura Carlsen, Tim Wise, and Hilda Salazar, eds., Editorial Miguel Angel Porrua, 2003.)

Earthscan Reader on International Trade and Sustainable Development

Kevin P. Gallagher and Jacob Werksman (eds.), Earthscan Publications, 2002.

Papers, Articles and Reports:

Os Novos Bancos em Cena: Financiamentos Chineses na América Latina, Kevin P. Gallagher, Amos Irwin, e Katherine Koleski, Inter-American Dialogue Report, updated May 2013

Framing Hunger: A Response to "The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012", Frances Moore Lappé, Timothy A. Wise, et. al. Small Planet Institute, May 2013

The Damaging Links Between Food, Fuel and Finance: A growing threat to food security, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, April 8, 2013

The Political Economy of Managing Capital Flows in South Korea and South Africa, Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, April 5, 2013

Post-Crisis Capital Account Regulation in South Korea and South Africa, by Brittany A. Baumann and Kevin P. Gallagher, PERI Working Paper No.320, April 2013.

IMF's New View on Capital Controls, Kevin P Gallagher and Jose Antonio Ocampo, Economic & Political Weekly Vol - XLVIII No. 12, March 23, 2013

Don’t trade away financial stability in Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreeement, Kevin P. Gallagher, Financial Times, March 6, 2013

Capital Account Regulations and the Trading System: A Compatibility Review, The Task Force on Regulating Global Capital Flows for Long-Run Development, March 2013 (Available in Spanish and Portuguese)

Food Crisis Update: Main Drivers of Price Volatility Still Not Addressed, Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, February 12, 2013

China is the new bank in Latin America. Is it a better deal?, Kevin P. Gallagher and Estefanía Marchán, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, February 11, 2013

China, el nuevo banco de America Latino, Kevin P. Gallagher and Estefanía Marchán, El Universo, February 5, 2013

Climate Impacts on Agriculture: A Challenge to Complacency? Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton, GDAE Working Paper 13-01, February 2013

A year of squandered opportunities to resolve the food crisis, Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy, IATP Commentary, January 31, 2013

Resolving the food crisis: The need for decisive action, Timothy A. Wise & Sophia Murphy, Al Jazeera, January 30, 2013 (Also reprinted in Third World Economics: Trends and Analysis)

The IMF’s New Transfers Policy and the Trading System Kevin P. Gallagher, Investment Treaty News, January 14, 2013

Biofuels and Hunger: The Story from Guatemala, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, January 7, 2013

¿Un mejor trato? Análisis comparativo de los préstamos chinos en América Latina, Kevin P. Gallagher, Amos Irwin, y Katherine Koleski, Centro de Estudios China-México de la Facultad de Economía de la UNAM, Updated January 2013

The IMF’s New View on Financial Globalization: A Critical Assessment, Kevin P. Gallagher, Pardee Center Issues in Brief, No. 26, December 2012

IMF May Be on Collision Course with Trade Policy, by Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, December 14, 2012

Chinese Investment and Sustainable Development in Peru: A Comparative Analysis, Amos Irwin and Kevin P. Gallagher, Working Group Discussion Paper DP34, December 2012

What was heresy is now (still far from) endorsed as orthodox at the IMF, Kevin P. Gallagher, Al Jazeera, December 11, 2012

The IMF’s Half Step, Kevin P. Gallagher, Project Syndicate, December 5, 2012

Capitalizing on the China Cycle: Time is Running out For Latin America, Kevin P. Gallagher, Inter-American Dialogue Policy Brief, December 2012

The Social Cost of Self-Insurance: Financial Crisis, Reserve Accumulation, and Developing, Countries, Kevin P. Gallagher and Elen Shrestha, Global Policy Journal, November 2012

Biofuels and the Right to Food: Time for the US to get its head out of the sand, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, November 27, 2012

Global Food Security in a Volatile World, Timothy A. Wise, World Politics Review, November 6, 2012

Chinese FDI in Latin America: Does Ownership Matter? Enrique Dussel Peters. Working Group Discussion Paper DP33, November 2012

Romney’s Latin American Trade Plan: The Devil is in the Detail, Kevin P Gallagher Americas Quarterly Blog, October 29, 2012

Development’s Last Giant? Remembering Alice Amsden, by Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, October 23, 2012

Mexico: Always Promising, by Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, October 11, 2012

US corn ethanol fuels food crisis in developing countries, Timothy A. Wise, Al Jazeera English, October 10, 2012

Growing Out of the Food Crisis: Mexican Smallholders Key to Food Sovereignty, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, October 10, 2012

Achieving Mexico’s Maize Potential, Antonio Turrent Fernández, Timothy A. Wise, and Elise Garvey, GDAE Working Paper 12-03, October 2012

Fueling the Food Crisis: The Cost to Developing Countries of US Corn Ethanol Expansion Timothy A. Wise and Marie Brill, ActionAid Policy Report, October 2012.

The Cost to Developing Countries of U.S. Corn Ethanol Expansion, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Working Paper 12-02, October 2012

Global Financial Reform and Trade Rules: The Need for Reconciliation, Kevin P. Gallagher and Leonardo E. Stanley, Pardee Center Issues in Brief, No. 24, September 2012

Trade rules should not constrain fixing global finance, Kevin P. Gallagher, Al Jazeera, September 26, 2012

Let’s not get ‘carried away’ by Bernanke’s latest twist, Kevin P. Gallagher, Financial Times, September 25, 2012

Financial Crises and International Investment Agreements: The Case of Sovereign Debt Restructuring, Kevin P. Gallagher, Global Policy Journal, September 6, 2012.

If we want food to remain cheap we need to stop putting it in our cars, Timothy A. Wise, Economics Blog from The Guardian, September 5, 2012

Challenges to India's Pharmaceutical Patent Laws, Kenneth C. Shadlen, Science, July 27, 2012.

Running on Empty: U.S. ethanol policies set to reach their illogical conclusion, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, July 23, 2012

"Challenging Opportunities for the Multilateral Trade Regime," Kevin P. Gallagher, The Future and the WTO: Confronting the Challenges A Collection of Short Essays, ICTSD Programme on Global Economic Policy and Institutions, July 2012

Brazil: Emerging markets can regulate global finance, Kevin P. Gallagher, Financial Times, July 10, 2012

Spotlight Rio+20: A Hard Slog Towards Sustainability, Lyuba Zarsky, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, June 25, 2012

Spotlight G-20: Mexico’s Surreal Leadership on Food Security, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, June 18, 2012

Tired of Waiting for a 21st Century Trade Agreement: Developing Countries, the TPP, and Regulating Cross Border Finance, Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, June 13, 2012

Navigating Capital Flows in Brazil and Chile, Kevin P. Gallagher, IPD Working Paper, June 2012.

Historic Moment for the IMF, Kevin Gallagher, Stephany Griffith-Jones, and Jose Ocampo, Financial Times, May 29, 2012.

Blinded by the (Solar) Light, Kevin P. Gallagher, Financial Times, May 22, 2012

G-8 punts on food security … to the private sector, Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, May 22, 2012

Spotlight G20: Will Mexico Lead Action on Biofuels, Food Crisis?, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, May 16, 2012

Los bancos chinos en América latina, Kevin P. Gallagher, Página/12, May 14, 2012

The New U.S. Model Bilateral Investment Treaty: A Public Interest Critique, contributors include Kevin P. Gallagher and other members of the subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy (ACIEP), May 9, 2012

The Global Governance of Capital Flows: New Opportunities, Enduring Challenges, Kevin P. Gallagher, PERI Working Paper, May 2012.

The Cost to Mexico of U.S. Corn Ethanol Expansion, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Working Paper 12-01, May 2012.

Biofueling Hunger: How US Corn Ethanol Policy Drives Up Food Prices in Mexico Timothy A. Wise and Marie Brill, ActionAid Policy Report, May 2012. Also available in Spanish.

Cross-border financial regulation is justified now more than ever, Kevin P. Gallagher, Poverty Matters Blog from The Guardian, April 19, 2012

Close the flood gates of speculative capital flows, Kevin P. Gallagher, Al Jazeera, April 11, 2012.

Regulating Global Capital Flows for Development, Kevin P. Gallagher, United Nations G-24,  Policy Brief No. 68, April 7, 2012

Over 100 Economists Endorse Jose Antonio Ocampo for World Bank President, Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, April 4, 2012

José Antonio Ocampo for (World Bank) president, Kevin P. Gallagher, Poverty Matters Blog from The Guardian, April 2, 2012

Avoiding capital flight to developing countries: a counter-cyclical approach, Stephany Griffith-Jones and Kevin P. Gallagher in Financial stability in emerging markets: dealing with global liquidity Ulrich Volz (ed.), German Development Institute, April 2012

Regulating Global Capital Flows for Long-Run Development, The Task Force on Regulating Global Capital Flows for Long-Run Development Report, March 2012. (Available in Spanish)

Guest post: Why Ocampo – not Kim – should be next World Bank president, Kevin P. Gallagher, Financial Times, March 23, 2012

Forget the received wisdom: Chinese finance in Latin America is a win-win Kevin P. Gallagher, Financial Times, March 16, 2012

Remembering Alice Amsden, Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, March 16, 2012

Not a Great Deal for Asia, Kevin P. Gallagher, The American Prospect, March 13, 2012

At 65, the IMF is changing - for the better, Kevin P. Gallagher, Al Jazeera, March 12, 2012.

Taming the liquidity tide, Kevin P. Gallagher, Financial Times, March 9, 2012.

New Data Confirms Food Crisis Model: Warns of coming price spikes, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, March 6, 2012

Hitting Them Where They Drive: Will rising gas prices prompt action on commodity speculation?, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, March 5, 2012

Malaysia needs to maintain capital regulation tools, Michael Lim Mah-Hui and Kevin P. Gallagher, The Edge Malaysia, March 5, 2012.

Economists Issue Statement on Capital Controls and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Initiated by GDAE and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), this economist statement calls for negotiators of the TPPA to recognize that capital controls are legitimate prudential financial regulations, February 28, 2012.

The New Banks in Town: Chinese Finance in Latin America, Kevin P. Gallagher, Amos Irwin, and Katherine Koleski, Inter-American Dialogue Report, February 2012.

100 Economists Call for Trans-Pacific Trade Deal to Allow Capital Controls, by Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, February 28, 2012.

The Continuing Food Crisis: Global Policy Reforms Lag ,Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy, Economic and Political Weekly, February 25, 2012.

Capital controls are not beggar thy neighbour, Kevin P. Gallagher, Financial Times, January 23, 2012.

Bamboozled by the TPP: The Small Benefits and Real Costs of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, January 23, 2012.

Searching for Gold in the Highlands of Guatemala, Lyuba Zarsky, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, January 19, 2012.

Resolving the Food Crisis: Global leaders fail to make crucial reforms, Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, January 18, 2012. Also available in Spanish and Portuguese.

Resolving the Food Crisis: Assessing Global Policy Reforms Since 2007, Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy, GDAE-IATP Policy Report, January 2012.

Mission Creep: International Investment Agreements and Sovereign Debt Restructuring," Kevin P. Gallagher, Investment Treaty News, January 12, 2012.

The Myth of Financial Protectionism: The New (and old) Economics of Capital Controls, Kevin P. Gallagher, PERI Working Paper, January 2012.

The IMF must heed G20 decisions, Kevin P. Gallagher, The Guardian, November 29, 2011.

Spotlight G20: BRICS should condition Euro bailouts on growth and more say, Kevin P. Gallagher,GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, November 3, 2011.

The G-20's helpful silence on capital controls, Kevin P. Gallagher, Jose Antonio Ocampo and Stephany Griffith-Jones, Project Syndicate, October 30, 2011.

Beyond the G20: Mitigating the Global Imbalances in the Absence of Global Coordination, Kevin P. Gallagher, Global Policy Journal, October 28, 2011.

Spotlight G20: More fodder for the food price debates: ethanol, speculation drove prices, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, October 19, 2011.

Capital inflows, bank deregulation and financial institutions: from repression to crash? Argentina and South Korea compared, Leonardo E. Stanley. Working Group Discussion Paper DP32, October 2011.

'Smoke but do not inhale': Capital Inflows, Financial Markets and Institutions, a Tale from Three Emerging Giants, Leonardo E. Stanley. Working Group Discussion Paper DP31, October 2011.

Trading Away Development:  The US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Kevin P. Gallagher,GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, October 3, 2011.

Searching for Gold in the Highlands of Guatemala: Economic Benefits and Environmental Risks of the Marlin Mine, Lyuba Zarsky and Leonardo Stanley, GDAE Report, September 2011. Also available in Spanish

U.S. Trade Policy: Moving Backwards in the 21st Century, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, September 15, 2011.

Taking the China Challenge: China and the Future of Latin American Economic Development, Kevin P. Gallagher, Latin America 2060: Consolidation or Crisis?, Pardee Center Task Force Report, September 2011.

Latin America 2060: Securing Economic Development for the Longer-Range Future, Ann Helwege, Latin America 2060: Consolidation or Crisis?, Pardee Center Task Force Report, September 2011.

Trading Away Stability and Growth: United States Trade Agreements in Latin America, Kevin P. Gallagher, PERI Working Paper No. 266, September, 2011.

Spotlight G20: Identifying the drivers of price volatility, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, July 27, 2011.

Spotlight G20: New Evidence of Speculation in financialized commodities markets, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, July 14, 2011.

U.S. Trade Policy: Still Waiting for a "21st Century Trade Agreement," Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher, LATN Brief, August, 2011.

The New Vulture Culture: Sovereign Debt Restructuring and Trade and Investment Treaties, Kevin P. Gallagher, IDEAs Working Paper, July, 2011. Download the UNCTAD Policy Brief, Sovereign Debt Restructuring and International Investment Agreements

What Food Crisis? Measuring Global Hunger, Timothy A Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, June 9, 2011.

Investment Treaty Arbitration and Developing Countries: A Re-Appraisal, Kevin P. Gallagher and Elen Shrestha, GDAE Working Paper, May 2011.

The Political Contradictions of Incremental Innovation: Lessons from Pharmaceutical Patent Examination in Brazil, Kenneth Shadlen, Politics and Society, April 5, 2011.

Doha Goes on Life Support, Timothy Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, May 16, 2011. Also available in Spanish.

An Intergovernmental Panel on Systemic Economic Risk, Kevin Gallagher, Policy Innovations, May 10, 2011.

The IMF, Capital Controls, and Developing Countries, Kevin P. Gallagher, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XLVI No 19, May 2011.

Trading Away Financial Stability in Colombia: Capital Controls and the US-Colombia Trade Agreement, Kevin P. Gallagher, Latin American Trade Network Brief 66, April 2011.

Reforming United States trade and investment treaties for financial stability: The case of capital controls, Kevin P. Gallagher, International Institute for Sustainable Development Investment Treaty News, April 5, 2011.

Obama's Tricky Trip to El Salvador, Kevin P. Gallagher, Policy Innovations, Carnegie Council, March 24, 2011.

Still Waiting for the Farm Boom: Family Farmers Worse Off Despite High Crop Prices, Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Policy Brief 11-01, March 2011.

Mexico: The Cost of U.S. Dumping, Timothy A. Wise, NACLA Report on the Americas, January/February, 2011.

Regaining Control? Capital Controls and the Global Financial Crisis, Kevin P. Gallagher, PERI Working Paper No. 250, Political Economy Research Institute, February 2011.

China Discovers Latin America, Kevin P. Gallagher, Berkeley Review, University of California, Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies, Fall/Winter 2011.

Food Price Volatility: Market fundamentals and commodity speculation, Timothy Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, January 27, 2011.

Latin America’s China Challenge, Kevin Gallagher, Policy Innovations, Carnegie Council, January 20, 2011.

Curbing Hot Capital Flows to Protect the Real Economy, Stephany Griffith-Jones and Kevin P. Gallagher, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 46 No. 03 January 15 -21, 2011.

Business and Human Rights: Searching for transformation, Lyuba Zarsky, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, January, 11, 2011.

Can Mining Promote Sustainable Development? Maybe, But Not Without State Muscle, Lyuba Zarsky, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, November, 23, 2010.

Taking the China Challenge: China and the Future of Latin American Economic Development, Kevin P. Gallagher, Latin American Trade Network, Serie Brief No. 58, November 2010.

Are High Agricultural Prices Good or Bad for Poverty?, Timothy Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, November 19, 2010.

Latin America Must See China as a Trade Threat as well as a Partner, Kevin Gallagher, Financial Times, November 11, 2010.

Dangers of Unrestrained Commerce, Kevin P Gallagher and Jayati Ghosh, Mint (daily newspaper of the Wall Street Journal in India), November 3, 2010 .

Capital Controls are Prudent but Not Easy, Kevin Gallagher, Financial Times, October 20, 2010.

China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization, Kevin P. Gallagher, Issues in Brief, No. 18, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, October 2010.

Reforming U.S. FTAs for Environmental Protection: Lessons from Mexico and Beyond, Kevin P. Gallagher, in A New Trade Policy for the United States: Lessons from Latin America, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September 2010.

Small-Scale Farmers and Development: Assume a different economic model, Timothy Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, September 27, 2010.

Buyer Power in U.S. Hog Markets: A Critical Review of the Literature, Timothy A. Wise and Sarah E. Trist, GDAE Working Paper No. 10-04, August 2010.

Who Pays for Agricultural Dumping? Farmers in developing countries, Timothy Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, July 29, 2010.

Gold Fever: Global investor search for “safe haven” makes indigenous Guatemalan communities unsafe, Lyuba Zarsky, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, July 2, 2010.

New Sovereign Debt Management Regime Should be G20 Focus, Kevin Gallagher,Financial Times, June 21, 2010.

Post-Crisis Economics: Are We All Structuralists Now? Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, July 21, 2010.

"The Hypocrisy Clause," Timothy A. Wise, Policy Innovations, Carnegie Council, June 18, 2010.

US-China Investment Treaty: A Threat to Stability and Growth in China, Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, June 15, 2010.

“The Expansion of Intensive Agriculture and Ranching in Brazilian Amazonia,”  Robert Walker, Ruth DeFries, Maria del Carmen Vera-Diaz, Yosio Shimabukuro, and Adriano Venturieri, in Amazonia and Global Change, 2010.

What's Left for Latin America to do with China? Kevin Gallagher, NACLA Report on the Americas, May/June 2010.

Climate Change and the Immigration Debate, Lyuba Zarsky, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, May 19, 2010.

US trade agreements threaten emerging markets' financial stability Kevin Gallagher, Financial Times, May 11, 2010.

Going Beyond Immigration Policy Timothy A. Wise, Foreign Policy in Focus, May 5, 2010.

Obama's "New" Trade Policy: What Happened to Multilateralism? Kevin Gallagher, Policy Innovations, Carnegie Council, March 22, 2010.

"Policy Space to Prevent and Mitigate Financial Crises in Global Trade and Investment Agreements,” Kevin P. Gallagher, UNCTAD/G-24 Discussion Paper, 2010.

Capital Controls and Trade Agreements, United Nations G-24,  Policy Brief No. 55

Would the Real IMF Please Stand Up? Kevin Gallagher, Financial Times, April 21, 2010.

Oped: Monopolies are Killing Our Farms Timothy A. Wise, nationally syndicated starting April 12, 2010.

Cleaning up the Clean Development Mechanism: Performance Standards needed to ensure carbon reductions, development benefits, Lyuba Zarsky, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, April 9, 2010.

Control that Capital, Foreign Policy, March 29, 2010 -- Kevin P. Gallagher welcomes the IMF's endorsement of capital controls to ease financial crises in developing countries.

"The True Cost of Cheap Food: The globalisation of the food market has made food cheap, but who is benefiting?” Timothy A. Wise, Resurgence, Issue 259, March/April 2010. Also available in Spanish.

Agribusiness and the Food Crisis: A new thrust at anti-trust, Timothy Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, March 22, 2010.

Obama’s New Trade Agenda: What happened to multilateralism and development? Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, March 17, 2010.

"Climate-Resilient Industrial Development Paths: Design Principles and Alternative Models," Lyuba Zarsky, GDAE Working Paper 10-01  February 2010.

"U.S. BITs and Financial Stability," Kevin P. Gallagher, Vale Columbia Center Policy Brief #19, February 2010.

Beyond Copenhagen: Searching for climate resilient development paths, Lyuba Zarsky, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, February 22, 2010.

Aiding Haiti: Let’s get it right this time, Timothy Wise, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, February 8, 2010.

Financial Regulatory Reform and US Investment Treaties, Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Globalization Commentary, from Triple Crisis Blog, February 5, 2010.

“The Politics of Patents and Drugs in Brazil and Mexico: The Industrial Bases of Health Policies,” Ken Shadlen, Comparative Politics 42/1 (October 09), pp. 41-58. (earlier version appeared as GDAE Working Paper No. 07-05, December 2007).

“Hogging the Gains From Trade: The Real Winners from U.S. Trade and Agricultural Policies” Timothy A. Wise and Betsy Rakocy, GDAE Policy Brief 10-01, February 2010

"Capital Controls and 21st Century Financial Crises: Evidence from Colombia and Thailand," Bruno Coelho and Kevin P. Gallagher, PERI Working Paper No. 213, Political Economy Research Institute, January 2010.

"Are There Large New Gains from Trade?" by Kevin P. Gallagher and Timothy A. Wise, Bridges Trade Monthly,  February 2010 (also published in Spanish "¿Existen nuevas ganancias de la Ronda Doha?" by Puentes Bimestral, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 2009).

"Agricultural Dumping Under NAFTA: Estimating the Costs of U.S. Agricultural Policies to Mexican Producers," by Timothy A. Wise, Mexican Rural Development Research Report No. 7, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010. (an earlier version appeared as GDAE Working Paper No. 09-08, December 2009).

Rethinking Trade Policy for Development: Lessons From Mexico Under NAFTA, by Eduardo Zepeda, Timothy A Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher, Carnegie Endowment Policy Outlook, December 2009. Also available in Spanish.

The Future of North American Trade Policy: Lessons From NAFTA, Kevin P. Gallagher, Enrique Dussel Peters, and Timothy A. Wise (eds.), Pardee Center Task Force Report, Boston University, November 2009. Also available in Spanish

Reforming North American Trade Policy, by Kevin P. Gallagher and Timothy A. Wise, Americas Program Commentary, December 3, 2009. Also available in Spanish.

“Is Development Back in the Doha Round?” by Kevin P. Gallagher and Timothy A. Wise, South Centre Policy Brief #18, November 2009.

“Don´t Expect Apples From a Pear Tree: Foreign Direct Investment and Innovation in Mexico,” Enrique Dussel Peters. Working Group Discussion Paper DP28, November 2009.

“Economic Globalization and the Environment,” by Kevin P. Gallagher, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 34: 279-304, November 2009. (NOTICE: Author Posting. (c) Annual Review of Environment and Resources. This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.)

“Justice Denied: Dispute Settlement in Latin America's Trade and Investment Agreements,” Michael Mortimore, Leonardo Stanley. Working Group Discussion Paper DP27, October 2009.

“The Environmental Impacts of Soybean Expansion and Infrastructure Development in Brazil’s Amazon Basin,” by Maria del Carmen Vera-Diaz, Robert K. Kaufmann, and Daniel C. Nepstad, GDAE Working Paper No. 09-05, June 2009.

“Policies for Industrial Learning in China and Mexico,” Kevin P. Gallagher and Mehdi Shafaeddin, RIS Discussion Paper #150, February 2009.

"Congressional Testimony on Improving Investment Agreements," Kevin P. Gallagher, May 14, 2009.

“Reforming and Reinforcing the Revolution: The Post-TRIPS Politics of Patents in Latin America,” by Ken Shadlen, GDAE Working Paper No. 09-02, April 2009.

"Global Crisis in Need of Global Solutions," by Kevin P. Gallagher, in Latin American Trade Network LATN Nexos 7, March 2009.

"Trading our Way Out of the Financial Crisis: The Need for WTO Reform," by Kevin P. Gallagher and Timothy A. Wise, Americas Program Policy Brief, Center for International Policy, March 4, 2009. (A version of this article is also available in Spanish here: http://www.ircamericas.org/esp/5943). (This article also appeared in Rebuilding Global Trade: Toward a Fairer, More Sustainable Future).

“Nafta’s Unhappy Anniversary,” by Kevin P. Gallagher and Timothy Wise, The Guardian, February 2009.  [A Spanish version of this article appeared in the Mexican daily La Jornada. The Opinion Sur, an Argentina-based online publication, has also published Portuguese and Spanish versions of this article]. Also see Kevin P. Gallagher's Regular Guardian Columns.

“The Economic Crisis and the Developing World: What Next?” Kevin P. Gallagher, Interview with Robert Wade and José Antonio Ocampo, Challenge, vol. 52, no. 1, January/February 2009, pp. 27–39.

“Boom for Whom? Family Farmers Saw Lower On-Farm Income Despite High Prices,” by Timothy A. Wise and Alicia Harvie, GDAE Policy Brief 09-02, February 2009.

“Sweetening the Pot: Implicit Subsidies to Corn Sweeteners and the U.S. Obesity Epidemic,” by Alicia Harvie and Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Policy Brief 09-01, February 2009.

“Resources, Rules and International Political Economy: The Politics of Development in the WTO,” by Ken Shadlen, GDAE Working Paper No. 09-01, January 2009.

“Putting Development Back in the WTO,” by Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher, PSE, December 2008.
This article is part of a recently published booklet, " Looking beyond Doha? New thinking on trade policy and development"

“The Global Financial Crisis and Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America”, by Kevin P. Gallagher, Latin American Trade Network, Serie Brief No. 44, November 2008.

“21st Century Trade Agreements: Implications for Long-Run Development Policy” by Rachel Denae Thrasher and Kevin P. Gallagher, The Pardee Papers, No. 2, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, September 2008.

Published reports by the GDAE-sponsored Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas:

• The Promise and Perils of Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Lessons from the Americas, By Mamerto Pérez, Sergio Schlesinger, and Timothy A. Wise, June 2008, Washington Office on Latin America.
• Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Americas, May 2008, Heinrich Boll Foundation.
• Globalization and the Environment: Lessons from the Americas, July 2004, Heinrich Boll Foundation.

“The Dynamism of Mexican Exports: Lost in (Chinese) Translation?” by Kevin P.Gallagher, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, and Roberto Porzecanski, World Development 36, 8, August 2008, 1365-1380. (NOTICE: Author Posting. (c) World Development. This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.)

“The Limited Promise of Agricultural Trade Liberalization,” by Timothy A. Wise, Working Group Discussion Paper DP19, July 2008.

"The Shrinking Gains from Global Trade Liberalization in Computable General Equilibrium Models," by Frank Ackerman and Kevin P. Gallagher, International Journal of Political Economy, vol. 37, no. 1, Spring 2008. (NOTICE: Author Posting. (c) M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 2008. This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.)

“FDI Spillovers and Sustainable Industrial Development: Evidence from U.S. Firms in Mexico’s Silicon Valley,” Lyuba Zarsky, Kevin Gallagher. Working Group Discussion Paper DP18, April 2008.

“When More Is Less: The Limited Impact of Foreign Investment in the Americas,” by Kevin P. Gallagher and Andrés López, Americas Program Policy Brief, Interhemispheric Resource Center, June 11, 2008.

"Back to the Drawing Board: No Basis for Concluding the Doha Round of Negotiations" by Kevin P. Gallagher and Timothy A. Wise, RIS Policy Brief #36, April 2008.

"Comment: Congress is right to oppose trade deal with Colombia," by Kevin P. Gallagher, Reuters, April 9, 2008.

“Understanding Developing Country Resistance to the Doha Round,” by Kevin P. Gallagher, Review of International Political Economy, 15:1, February, 2008, 62-85.

"Climbing Up the Technology Ladder? High-Technology Exports in China and Latin America" by Kevin P. Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski, U.C. Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies Working Paper No. 20, January 2008.

"Free Trade Agreements in the Americas: Worth the Investment?" by Kevin P. Gallagher, Bridges Trade Monthly, ICTSD, Nov.-Dec. 2007 (Also published in Spanish in ICTSD's Puentes).

"Feeding at the Trough: Industrial Livestock Firms Saved $35 billion From Low Feed Prices," by Elanor Starmer and Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Policy Brief 07-03, December 2007.

"Living High on the Hog: Factory Farms, Federal Policy, and the Structural Transformation of Swine Production," by Elanor Starmer and Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Working Paper No. 07-04, December 2007.

"Declining Poverty in Latin America? A Critical Analysis of New Estimates by International Institutions," by Ann Helwege and Melissa B.L. Birch, GDAE Working Paper No. 07-02, September 2007.

"Multinationals and the “Maquila Mindset” in Mexico’s Silicon Valley," by Lyuba Zarsky and Kevin P. Gallagher, Americas Program Policy Brief, Interhemispheric Resource Center, October 12, 2007.

"Relevance of ‘Policy Space’ for Development: Implications for Multilateral Trade Negotiations," by Nagesh Kumar and Kevin P. Gallagher, RIS Discussion Paper #120, March 2007.

"No Fast Track to Global Poverty Reduction," by Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Policy Brief 07-02, April 2007.

"Greening U.S. Trade," by Kevin P. Gallagher, Policy Innovations, April 9, 2007.

"The WTO and the Shrinking of Development Space—How Big is the Bite?" by Alisa DiCaprio and Kevin P. Gallagher, Journal of World Investment and Trade, Volume 7, no. 5, October 2006.
A policy brief based on this article appeared as "Measuring the Cost of Lost Policy Space at the WTO," Americas Program, International Relations Center, March 20, 2007.
This document was also published in Spanish and Korean.

"Industrial Livestock Companies' Gains from Low Feed Prices, 1997-2005," by Timothy A. Wise and Elanor Starmer, GDAE Policy Brief 07-01, February, 2007.

"Policy Space for Mexican Maize: Protecting Agro-biodiversity by Promoting Rural Livelihoods," by Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Working Paper No. 07-01, February, 2007. (This paper has also been published in Spanish.)

"Do Investment Agreements Attract Investment? Evidence from Latin America," by Kevin P. Gallagher and Melissa B.L. Birch, Journal of World Investment and Trade v7, no6., December 2006.

"Feeding the Factory Farm: Implicit Subsidies to the Broiler Chicken Industry," Elanor Starmer, Aimee Witteman and Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Working Paper No. 06-03, June, 2006.

"Is NAFTA Working For Mexico?" by Kevin P. Gallagher, The Environmental Forum, May/June 2006.

"Doha Round and Developing Countries: Will the Doha deal do more harm than good?" by Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher, RIS Policy Brief #22, April 2006.

"Rethinking Foreign Investment for Development," By Kevin P.Gallagher and Lyuba Zarsky, Published in Post-Autistic Economics Review, Issue no. 37, April 28, 2006.

"Doha's Hidden Price Tag" By Kevin P. Gallagher, Bridges Trade Monthly, March-April, 2006.

"The Missing Links between Foreign Investment and Development: Lessons from Costa Rica and Mexico," February, 2006. Eva A. Paus and Kevin P. Gallagher.

"The WTO's Development Crumbs," By Timothy A. Wise, Foreign Policy in Focus, January 23, 2006.

"Brazil: Trading Away Industrial Development?" Kevin P. Gallagher, IRC Americas Program Policy Report, December 13, 2005.

"The Hong Kong Ministerial: What’s at Stake for the Poor?" By Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher, Bridges Trade Monthly, December 2005. (Also available in Spanish.)

"Preserving Policy Space for Sustainable Development: The Subsidies Agreement at the WTO," Francisco Aguayo Ayala and Kevin P. Gallagher, Trade Knowledge Network/IISD, December 2005. 

"Identifying the Real Winners from U.S. Agricultural Policies," Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Working Paper No. 05-07, December, 2005.

"Policy Space for Development in the WTO and Beyond: The Case of Intellectual Property Rights," by Ken Shadlen, GDAE Working Paper 05-06, November 2005.

"The Doha Round's Development Impacts: Shrinking Gains and Real Costs,"
RIS Policy Brief #19, by Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher, November 2005.

"Revaluing Peasant Coffee Production: Organic and Fair Trade Markets in Mexico," by Muriel Calo and Timothy A. Wise, October 2005.

"The Shrinking Gains from Trade: A Critical Assessment of Doha Round Projections," Frank Ackerman, GDAE Working Paper No. 05-01, October 2005.

"CAFTA and the environment," by Kevin P. Gallagher, The Providence Journal, April 11, 2005.

"Understanding the Farm Problem: Six Common Errors in Presenting Farm Statistics," by Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Working Paper No. 05-02, March 2005.

"CAFTA's False Promise," by Kevin P. Gallagher, Americas Program Policy Brief, International Relations Center, March 21, 2005.

"Testing Two Views Of Trade's Environmental Impacts," interview with Kevin P. Gallagher in EcoAmericas, February 2005.

"Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond," by Kevin P. Gallagher, Americas Program Policy Brief, Interhemispheric Resource Center, September 17, 2004. (Published in Spanish in La Jornada en la Economia, August 9, 2004, "Libre Comercio y Ecologia: El Paraiso Contaminante."

"The Environmental Costs of Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Mexico-U.S. Maize Trade Under NAFTA," Alejandro Nadal and Timothy A. Wise. Working Group Discussion Paper DP04, June 2004.

"Economic Integration and the Environment in Mexico: Lessons for Future Trade Agreements," Kevin P. Gallagher. Working Group Discussion Paper DP06, June 2004.

“Fair Trade in Tropical Crops is Possible: International Commodity Agreements Revisited,” by Niek Koning, Muriel Calo, and Roel Jongeneel. North-South Centre Discussion Paper No. 3, Wangeningen University, June 2004.

"Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Agricultural Subsidies, Dumping, and Policy Reform," Bridges Trade Monthly, May 2004. (Also available in Spanish, in Puentes entre el comercio y el desarrollo sostenible.)

"The Paradox of Agricultural Subsidies: Measurement Issues, Agricultural Dumping, and Policy Reform" by Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Working Paper 04-02, May 2004.

"NAFTA, Foreign Direct Investment, and Development in Mexico", by Kevin P. Gallagher and Lyuba Zarsky, Americas Program Policy Brief, Interhemispheric Resource Center, January 28, 2004.

"Sustainable Industrial Development? The Performance of Mexico’s FDI-led Integration Strategy," by Kevin P. Gallagher, and Lyuba Zarsky, November 2003.

"A Fate Worse Than NAFTA: Mexico's Failure to Implement Farm Protections,"
by Timothy A. Wise, Center for Popular Economics, November 17, 2003.

"Fields of Free Trade: Mexico's Small Farmers in a Global Economy," by Timothy A. Wise, Dollars & Sense, November/December 2003.

"International Trade and Air Pollution: The Economic Costs of Air Emissions from Waterborne Commerce Vessels in the United States" Kevin P. Gallagher and Robin Taylor, GDAE Working Paper 03-08, September 2003.

"Nothing Fails Like Success: NAFTA's Sorry Track Record in Mexico"
by Timothy A. Wise, Center for Popular Economics, September 1, 2003.

"The Environmental Review of the FTAA: Examining the U.S. Approach," Kevin P. Gallagher, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Trade, Equity, and Development Series, No. 7, August 2003.

"Free Trade, Corn, and the Environment: Environmental Impacts of US-Mexico Corn Trade Under NAFTA," Frank Ackerman, Timothy A. Wise, Kevin P. Gallagher, Luke Ney, and Regina Flores, in Trade and Environment in North America: Key Findings for Agriculture and Energy (Montreal: North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, 2003), and published with permission as GDAE Working Paper No. 03-06, June 2003.

NAFTA's Untold Stories: Mexico's Grassroots Responses to North American Integration, Timothy A. Wise, Americas Program Policy Report (Silver City, NM: Interhemispheric Resource Center, June 10, 2003).

Searching for the Holy Grail: Making FDI Work for Sustainable Development, Lyuba Zarsky and Kevin P. Gallagher, WWF Analytical Paper, March 2003.

"Economic Reform, Energy, and Development: The Case of Mexican Manufacturing" Francisco Aguayo and Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Working Paper 03-05, July 2003.

"NAFTA: A Cautionary Tale," by Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher, published by Foreign Policy in Focus and the "Americas Program" of the Interhemispheric Resource Center, October 24, 2002. (Also available in Spanish.)

"Economic Analysis in Environmental Reviews of Trade Agreements: Assessing the North American Experience" by Kevin P. Gallagher, Frank Ackerman, and Luke Ney, April 2002. 

"Is the United States a Pollution Haven?" by Frank Ackerman, published by Foreign Policy in Focus and the "Americas Program" of the Interhemispheric Resource Center, March 1, 2002.  (Also available in Spanish.)

"Fast Track: Fix It or Nix It" by Kevin Gallagher, published by Foreign Policy in Focus and the "Americas Program" of the Interhemispheric Resource Center, January 25, 2002. (Also available in Spanish.)

"A Retrospective Review of FERC's Environmental Impact Statement on Open Transmission Access," a report for the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation on energy deregulation in North America, co-authored by Frank Ackerman with Tim Woolf, Geoff Keith, and David White of Synapse Energy Economics, October 19, 2001.  (Available as PDF file from Synapse web site.)

"Is NACEC a Model Trade and Environment Institution? Lessons from Mexican Industry,"  Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Working Paper 01-08, October 2001.(The final version of this paper is now available as "The CEC and Environmental Quality: Assessing the Mexican Experience," in John Knox and David Markel, eds., Greening NAFTA: The Experience and Potential of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2002.)

GDAE Submits Comments to USTR: Building on its critique of the misuses of economic modeling in assessing the potential environmental impacts of trade agreements, GDAE and some of its Latin American collaborators have submitted formal comments to the USTR on proposed trade agreements. Those filings are available at:

• US-Chile Free Trade Agreement -- Environmental Review: Kevin Gallagher and Frank Ackerman, along with Hernan Blanco and Annie Dufey of Chile's Center for Planning and Research on the Environment (CIPMA), November 2001.  Read the comments (PDF).
• Free Trade Area of the Americas -- Environmental Review Methodology: "The Limits of Economic Modeling in the FTAA Environmental Review."  (PDF) Frank Ackerman, Kevin Gallagher, and Alejandro Nadal, January 2001.
• Free Trade Area of the Americas -- General: "NAFTA: A Cautionary Tale", by Kevin P. Gallagher and Timothy A. Wise, September 2002.

"Dirt is in the Eye of the Beholder: The World Bank Air Pollution Intensities for Mexico" Francisco Aguayo, Kevin P. Gallagher, and Ana Citlalic Gonz^lez, GDAE Working Paper 01-07, July 2001.

"Have Faith in Free Trade: The Greatest Story Oversold" (PDF) Kevin Gallagher, Foreign Policy in Focus, June 2001.

"Can Openers and Comparative Advantage: Alternative Theories of Free Trade and Globalization" (PDF) Frank Ackerman, Speech presented to the Environment Forum of the Peoples' Summit of the Americas, April 2001.

"Community Control in a Global Economy: Lessons from Mexico's Economic Integration Process" (PDF)  Timothy A. Wise and Eliza Waters, GDAE Working Paper 01-03, February 2001.

"The Limits of Economic Modeling in the FTAA Environmental Review."  (PDF) Frank Ackerman, Kevin Gallagher, and Alejandro Nadal, comments filed with the U.S. Trade Representative's Office, January 2001.

"Trade Liberalization and Industrial Pollution in Mexico: Lessons for the FTAA." (PDF) Kevin Gallagher, GDAE Working Paper 00-07, October 2000. This paper is no longer available as a GDAE Working Paper, as it will appear as "Industrial Pollution in Mexico: Did the NAFTA Matter?" in The Environment and the FTAA: What Can We Learn from the NAFTA Experience? Carolyn Deere and Daniel Esty (eds). (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002).

"Trade Liberalization and Pollution Intensive Industries in Developing Countries: A Partial Equilibrium Approach." (PDF) Kevin Gallagher and Frank Ackerman, GDAE Working Paper 00-03, January 2000.

"Social and Environmental Impacts of NAFTA: Grassroots responses to economic integration"  Hilda Salazar and Laura Carlsen, eds.  This bilingual booklet on some of the case studies from the "Community Control" research is available on the RMALC web site.

Publications from GDAE's Mexican partner institute, PROCIENTEC, can also be found on this web site.  (See PROCIENTEC Working Papers.)

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