Testimony Regarding the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)

Athreya argues that the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is s step backward from previous trade agreements that required countries to take steps to ensure that workers enjoy certain basic rights. Athreya describes the negative impact CAFTA would have on workers in various Central American countries. She argues instead for a new trade agreement that contains a strong and enforceable labor rights mechanism

Testimony Regarding the Central America Free trade Agreement (CAFTA) Prepared by Bama Athreya, Deputy Director

ILRF_TRADECAFTA.pdf: 18 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Monotonicity property for a class of semilinear partial differential equations

We establish a monotonicity property in the space variable for the solutions of an initial boundary value problem concerned with the parabolic partial differential equation connected with super-Brownian motion

Request for Review of the GSP Status of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Violations of Worker Rights

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ILRF_ReviewGSPStatusUzbekistanViolations_2007.pdf: 186 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Letter to US Trade Policy Staff Committee

This letter states the official comments of the ILRF regarding the US Free Trade Agreement with the Republic of Colombia. The ILRF maintains that prior to entering into an FTA with Colombia the US Government must require that the Colombian government achieve certain preconditions that will ensure that all workers can freely exercise their right to freedom of association

Opinion : The economics of bankruptcy

Bankruptcy

Logarithm laws and shrinking target properties

We survey some of the recent developments in the study of logarithm laws and shrinking target properties for various families of dynamical systems. We discuss connections to geometry, diophantine approximation, and probability theory.Comment: This is a survey paper written following the Conference on Measures and Dyanmics on groups and homogeneous spaces, at TIFR, Mumbai, in Dec. 2007. It is in honor of Prof. S.G. Dani's 60th Birthda