Putting Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in the WTO and International Financial InstitutionsKevin 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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... social component of income . Most developing countries fail miserably in this respect ( e.g. an inability to rein in their defense expenditure or the expansion of salaries and wages in the public sector at the cost of spending on the social ...
... social component of income . Most developing countries fail miserably in this respect ( e.g. an inability to rein in their defense expenditure or the expansion of salaries and wages in the public sector at the cost of spending on the social ...
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... social divisions does little to help advance the causes of social or economic development . The South African and Malaysian cases illustrate the importance of protecting the public sector's ability to develop active social policies for ...
... social divisions does little to help advance the causes of social or economic development . The South African and Malaysian cases illustrate the importance of protecting the public sector's ability to develop active social policies for ...
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... Social Research , UCLA , http : //naid.sppsr . ucla.edu/pubs&news/nafta2000.html . Hoda , A. ( 1994 ) " Trade ... Social Services . Ottawa : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Canadian Council on Social Development ...
... Social Research , UCLA , http : //naid.sppsr . ucla.edu/pubs&news/nafta2000.html . Hoda , A. ( 1994 ) " Trade ... Social Services . Ottawa : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Canadian Council on Social Development ...
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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