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Hewings, Geoffrey J.D. Zerlentes, Becky 2015-09-25T22:35:10Z 2015-09-25T22:35:10Z 10000-01-01 2003 2003 With a combined population of 410 million and joint Gross Domestic Product near 11 trillion USD, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) represents the world's largest trading bloc in a global economy of 40.7 trillion USD. Under the current agreement, US Mexico trade has strengthened to the point where Mexico is now the United States' second largest trading partner, with the US remaining as Mexico's largest. The export processing industry, formerly known as the maquila industry, comprises the largest share of this bi-national trade; furthermore, it is the most dynamic component. In the past decade, the industry surpassed both tourism and petroleum products to become the number one source of earned foreign exchange for Mexico. Clearly, the economic impacts of the maquila industry on the Mexican and US-Mexico border economies are critical, as are the impacts of NAFTA on the industry itself, and these issues merit research. Furthermore, given the negative production externalities that characterized the first two phases of the industry, the environmental repercussions of this expanding industry should be studied. Using dynamic modeling as the underlying methodology, this thesis provides a framework for considering the maquila industry from a joint economic and environmental perspective. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T22:35:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3086225.pdf: 5296067 bytes, checksum: 4e7b1ec60ccb9f436ec1769b70721c30 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 86424 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 121 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/85143 (MiAaPQ)AAI3086225 eng Economics, Commerce-Business Modeling Production Externalities in the Maquila Industry text Geography Geography University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.