Deliberating a Philippine-US Free Trade Agreement: Issues, Challenges and Prospects

Erlinda M. Medalla and Jenny D. Balboa
Additional contact information
Erlinda M. Medalla: PIDS

Trade Working Papers from East Asian Bureau of Economic Research

Abstract: As a result of changing conditions in the world market and increasing global competition, trade and integration arrangements have become a part of economic and development strategies of countries. Bilateral economic partnerships or Free Trade Agreements are seen as an option in creating a stable economy and in creating an environment attractive for investment. However, while there are benefits to gain from an FTA, it should be recognized that FTAs are not a panacea to cure the sluggish economy. It is a strategy that should be carefully crafted, negotiated and implemented. It comes with both benefits and costs. The question then is how to make an FTA work for the country. This paper integrates the findings of the studies which explore the various issues concerning the potential Free Trade Agreement between the Philippines and the United States. It examines the gains, the challenges as well as the opportunities for the Philippines in entering into a bilateral economic partnership with the United States.

Keywords: Free Trade Agreement; competitive liberalization; economic partnership; global trading environment; Market Access; Services Trade; investment; intellectual property rights; development goals; development framework (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 O19 O24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-01
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.eaber.org/node/22663 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 301 [REDIRECT LOOP] Moved Permanently (http://www.eaber.org/node/22663 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/22663 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/22663 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/22663 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/22663 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/22663 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/22663 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/22663)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eab:tradew:22663

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Trade Working Papers from East Asian Bureau of Economic Research Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Shiro Armstrong ().