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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... reason why industrial policy failed in most countries is precisely that this dilemma was not overcome . But it is ... reasons . First , several factor needs are specific to particular activities ; if they lack the coordination to meet ...
... reason why industrial policy failed in most countries is precisely that this dilemma was not overcome . But it is ... reasons . First , several factor needs are specific to particular activities ; if they lack the coordination to meet ...
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... reasons , countered in a number of ways . For example , when in 1859 the British colonial government in India imposed small import duties on textile goods ( 3-10 per cent ) for purely fiscal reasons , the local producers were taxed to ...
... reasons , countered in a number of ways . For example , when in 1859 the British colonial government in India imposed small import duties on textile goods ( 3-10 per cent ) for purely fiscal reasons , the local producers were taxed to ...
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... reasons to suspect that even a positive list approach could make comprehensive exemptions difficult to implement . The cases we have discussed support the view that the ability to retain policy space exists more in theory than in ...
... reasons to suspect that even a positive list approach could make comprehensive exemptions difficult to implement . The cases we have discussed support the view that the ability to retain policy space exists more in theory than in ...
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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