I think you answered it well. A trade agreement assists and promotes economic prosperity. When there's economic prosperity, it does promote stronger democratic institutions, better social conditions. Those are all part and parcel of the same progress in terms of economic advancement. I think Chile is a good example of such progress.
You know, economists aren't very good at pulling this information out, and that's why I did point to the study of Professor Sala-i-Martin of Columbia University in the United States. He did the study for the Inter-American Development Bank and he deals specifically with Colombia in that study and talks about the relationship between poverty and economic development, and institution-building in general. I think there's more and more evidence that that is the case.
In Colombia obviously we're dealing with a specific situation, a long-running internal conflict, and that carries with it very problematic issues. But the Uribe government is making progress. It is trying very hard on all fronts, as Jamie Lambert has explained. The United Nations High Commission has an office there, and they're very transparent about what their efforts are.
So in terms of the argument as to whether free trade agreements lead to greater economic prosperity that reinforces poverty eradication and helps fortify democratic institutions, I think there's increasing evidence of that, and that economists are now turning their attention more to trying to derive that information from the studies they do.