Christine Ahn prepared the leaflet Debunking Five Myths aboutthe Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (Korus FTA) for the progressive/left, Oakland Institute.
The five myths:
Categories
- Agriculture
- Beef
- Cars and trucks
- Environmental impacts
- Health
- Implementation
- Income, Employment, Welfare Impacts
- Intellectual property
- Investment
- Kaesong
- Korea
- Korean economy
- Korean trade policy
- Labor issues
- Manufactures
- Negotiations
- North Korea
- Pharmaceuticals
- Political economy
- Political/diplomatic objectives
- Ratification - Korea
- Ratification - U.S.
- Services
- Trade Diversion
- Trade regulation
- U.S. trade politics
- Visa waivers
Recent Posts
- Obama to support KORUS FTA in 2010
- Problems with KORUS FTA transparency provisions
- Obama slows down
- Remember last year's beef protests?
- Ron Kirk talks sense to the American people
- Sherrod Brown wants to slow down
- FTA through key National Assembly committee; final Assembly action in June?
- Progress in the U.S.
- What's next for U.S. beef?
- A step forward in the National Assembly?
Key KORUS Documents
KORUS FTA Resources
Korea Blogging (in English)
Korea and the FTA
Edward M. Graham: Reforming Korea's Industrial Conglomerates
William W. Lewis: The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability
Chapter 5 discusses sectoral productivity in Korea.
