Free Trade and its Impact on the Urban System in the
Border Region: El Paso -Ciudad Juarez

AMOUNT: $15,000 US

PROJECT LEADERS: Cesar Mario Fuentes and Sergio Peña

INSTITUTIONS: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte and The University of Texas at El Paso

With this project, researchers developed a time series from 1970 to 2000 by matching spatial information as well as census data from Mexico and the United States. The research found a knowledge regarding the degree of the spatial impacts of free trade in the region El Paso-Ciudad Juarez. Results were published in peer review journals and presented the findings and policy implications to local officials and community leaders in forums in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. This research was the beginning of a fruitful partnership between El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) and the Univesity of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) to study social issues that are important to the communities in both sides of the border.