Economic integration and structural adjustments in North America,Central America and the Caribbean: A computable general equilibrium approach

The articles in this special issue are part of the results of an multinational research project entitled: “Regional Integration in Greater North America: A Research, Training and Policy Program.” It would have been impossible to undergo this multinational task without the economic support so kindly granted by the Ford Foundation and the continuous support of Dr. Norman Collins and Dr. Michael Conroy, both of whom worked for the Ford Foundation in Mexico City. The project also benefited from the institutional support of El Colegio de México (COLMEX), the Fundación Nacional de Desarrollo (FUNDE), from the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of California, Davis, as well as from the Inter–American Development Bank and the governments of the countries included in this study. This volume is the result of intense and collective work, not only by the authors of the articles, but also from other researchers and from officials belonging to various institutions in Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico and the United States. We wish to give our special thanks to Alfonso Goitia, Ph.D., Executive Director of FUNDE, El Salvador, for his support as well as his researchers, Mario Lungo and Sonia Baires. We also wish to thank Mr. Óscar René Cardona for his help during the first stages of our research for Guatemala. We would like to thank Professor Victor Bulmer Thomas for his support as well as the authorities from the Banco Central de Guatemala for their help in building the database used in our investigation of this country’s economy.