NAFTA's Promise and Reality: Lessons from Mexico for the Hemishphere (original) (raw)

El Colegio de México (COLMEX) has been our research partner from the beginning, and we wish to thank General Academic Coordinator Jean Francois Prud'Homme for the exceptional research conducted by his colleagues. In particular, the work done by Antonio Yúnez-Naude and his colleagues at the Programa de Estudios del Cambio Económico y la Sustentabilidad del Agro Mexicano (PRECESAM) was essential to our understanding of the relationship between trade liberalization and agriculture. We have been privileged to work with an excellent team of assistants, including Carnegie Junior Fellows Vanessa Ulmer and Jacob Steinfeld, and Kristen Dubay, from Duke University. Maria Carlo helped keep us on schedule by mastering travel schedules, contracts, and deadlines. Demetrios Papademetriou at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) was assisted by Maia Jachimowicz and Kevin O'Neil. MPI senior fellow and former head of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service Doris Meissner provided guidance throughout the project. In addition to our research team, the following people reviewed chapters and gave us their time and suggestions: Chantal Line