Putting Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in the WTO and International Financial InstitutionsKevin P. Gallagher Some of the world's most prominent development thinkers address the following question in this volume: to what extent are the rules and economic forces that govern the global economy shrinking the 'policy space' that developing countries can draw from in order to construct policies to raise the standards of living of their people? They then analyse the possibly considerable room for manoeuvre that developing countries still have at their disposal despite global macro-economic realities, IMF/World Bank policies, and the trade rules regime of the World Trade Organization. Finally, the authors suggest actual policies that could be put in place in order to preserve existing spaces for development and to expand the tools developing countries can deploy. |
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... compared to a rate of 5.5 per cent between 1960 and 1980. Growth was faster during the 1990s than in the 1980s , but it still did not compare to the period prior to the reforms . The ECLAC report concludes that the reforms contributed ...
... compared to a rate of 5.5 per cent between 1960 and 1980. Growth was faster during the 1990s than in the 1980s , but it still did not compare to the period prior to the reforms . The ECLAC report concludes that the reforms contributed ...
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... compared to those of the periods before or after it also highlights the importance of institutions in generating ... comparable stages of development partly because they had much better institutions than the latter countries . During the ...
... compared to those of the periods before or after it also highlights the importance of institutions in generating ... comparable stages of development partly because they had much better institutions than the latter countries . During the ...
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... Compared to the anarchy of “ might makes right " relations among nations , even biased efforts to establish some sort of " rule of law " have advantages from the point of view of the unprivileged . Most important , the current ...
... Compared to the anarchy of “ might makes right " relations among nations , even biased efforts to establish some sort of " rule of law " have advantages from the point of view of the unprivileged . Most important , the current ...
Contents
Development Policies in a World of Globalization | 15 |
The Role of the State in | 33 |
Toward the Optimum Degree of Openness | 69 |
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