IPS Associate Fellow Manuel Pérez-Rocha will address the roles of NAFTA and CAFTA in a convening about highly contested U.S. trade policies and thier impact on jobs, wages, national security and democratic accountability.
IPS Fellow Manuel Pérez-Rocha a featured panelist at the international conference, “EU Trade Policy at the Crossroads: between Economic Liberalism and Democratic Challenges.”
As President Obama tries to save the Trans-Pacific Partnership this week, debates over the goals of free trade intensifies.
Hundreds denounced a secret tribunal housed at the World Bank that is getting ready to rule on a case that could determine the future of El Salvador’s water supply.
Warnings about the human and environmental costs of “free trade” went unheeded. Now the most vulnerable Central Americans are paying the price.
As the T.T.I.P. and T.P.P. negotiations continue, Pacific Rim vs. El Salvador should remind us not to privilege foreign investors to the detriment of the national — or global — good.
The new Republican majority could complicate Obama’s efforts to move forward on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
At a time of multiple environmental and social crises and an unprecedented expansion in the power of transnational corporations (TNCs), it has never been more urgent to exert social controls over such powerful institutions.
You’re invited to a congressional briefing with IPS’ Global Economy project and others on the 20th anniversary of NAFTA to reflect upon the agreement’s harmful effects on North American communities and the environment, and how negotiations for more free trade agreements threaten people everywhere.