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073350
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2006.
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This article examines Philippine perspectives on the CAFTA and explores the reasons why Philippine official and business circles are not willing to accept the CAFTA concept. It makes a brief assessment of Sino-Philippine economic relations in the context of the CAFTA, and also illustrates the changing attitudes of Philippine official and business sectors toward the CAFTA.
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059543
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Winter 2004-05.
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115044
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2012.
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The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) exemplifies interconnections and contradictions between geopolitical and geoeconomic agendas, including security, democracy, and resource marketing. Central American sovereignty is selectively weakened as states are increasingly dependent on the US and must synchronise governance with the expectations of their most important trade partner or risk becoming defendants in international tribunals. Salvadoran and Costa Rican governments have been accused of upholding environmental regulations that impede the profit-earning of multinational corporations, while the Guatemalan state was charged with violating domestic labour laws. Nevertheless, criminal behaviour and impunity are widespread across the region and seldom provoke US action. Five years after CAFTA's implementation, there is evidence of the erosion of democracy, repression of civil society, and uneven distribution of trade costs and benefits. These results have led some analysts to conclude CAFTA must be renegotiated, while others recommend human and labour rights protocols accompany free trade agreements.
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