Making the links

For the peoples of the Western Hemisphere, the double impact of the new rules of the WTO and the newly minted FTAA will be profound. [...] In Europe, the Commissioner of the European Union on WTO Policies and Administration maintains direct links with MAKING THE LINKS: A Peoples’ Guide to the World Trade Organization and the Free Trade Area of the Americas. [...] The MAKING THE LINKS: A Peoples’ Guide to the World Trade Organization and the Free Trade Area of the Americas. [...] Convened by then U. S. President Bill Clinton, the Summit came at the threshold of free trade deal making in the 1990s: the official launch of the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States in January 1994; and the setting up of the World Trade Organization to replace the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs beginning January 1, 1995. [...] While these provisions vary from country to country, the structural adjustment programs imposed by the World Bank and the IMF on governments in the South since the 1980s have certainly weakened what social programs and public services exist for peoples in the Americas outside Canada and the U. S. The FTAA will more than likely reinforce this erosion of social security throughout the hemisphere.