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Author: Zungun Deniz Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ISBN: 9783659691157 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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A developing country may have two different paths aimed at industrialization policies according to its foreign trade perspective. The first one is import substitution industrialization and the second one is export-oriented industrialization. At the same time countries that have to shape their allocation of resources according to foreign demand are compulsory to be open for international trade. The reason is that the strategy reaches to success if developed countries open their markets to developing or less developed countries. Whereas, it's clearly known that developed countries open their market to other developed countries. In Turkey, when the import substitution industrialization policies that has been applied since 1963 started to be inadequate export-oriented industrialization policy was adopted with the framework of the Stabilization Program on January 24th 1980 and while the significant increases were performed in Turkey's export volume as a result of positive developments created by these policies. The best evidence of this change is incredible progress in export item of manufacturing industry which is one of the most important industrial sectors in the economic structure.
Author: Zungun Deniz Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ISBN: 9783659691157 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
A developing country may have two different paths aimed at industrialization policies according to its foreign trade perspective. The first one is import substitution industrialization and the second one is export-oriented industrialization. At the same time countries that have to shape their allocation of resources according to foreign demand are compulsory to be open for international trade. The reason is that the strategy reaches to success if developed countries open their markets to developing or less developed countries. Whereas, it's clearly known that developed countries open their market to other developed countries. In Turkey, when the import substitution industrialization policies that has been applied since 1963 started to be inadequate export-oriented industrialization policy was adopted with the framework of the Stabilization Program on January 24th 1980 and while the significant increases were performed in Turkey's export volume as a result of positive developments created by these policies. The best evidence of this change is incredible progress in export item of manufacturing industry which is one of the most important industrial sectors in the economic structure.
Author: Richard E. Baldwin Publisher: ISBN: 9781907142239 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 112
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The global financial crisis of 2008/9 is the Great Depression of the 21st century. For many though, the similarities stop at the Wall Street Crash as the current generation of policymakers have acted quickly to avoid the mistakes of the past. Yet the global crisis has made room for mistakes all of its own. While governments have apparently kept to their word on refraining from protectionist measures in the style of 1930s tariffs, there has been a disturbing rise in "murky protectionism." Seemingly benign, these crisis-linked policies are twisted to favour domestic firms, workers and investors. This book, first published as an eBook on VoxEU.org in March 2009, brings together leading trade policy practitioners and experts - including Australian Trade Minister Simon Crean and former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo. Initially its aim was to advise policymakers heading in to the G20 meeting in London, but since the threat of murky protectionism persists, so too do their warnings.
Author: Helen V. Milner Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691010749 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 343
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Milner explores the similarities between the economic conditions of the 1920s and the 1970s, where both Western Europe and the U.S. had high unemploymnet rates and sizeable agricultural and industrial overcapacity. She draws on evidence from six U.S. industries in the 1920s, six U.S. firms in the 1970s, and six French industries in the 1970s, and concludes that in the 1970s both nations had corporations with international market interests than they had in the 1920s. She believes that in modern industrial nations, the corporate sector plays an important role in policy determination, and that any move toward protectionism would be at the behest of large corporations with international interests. ISBN 0-691-05670-6: $29.50.
Author: Takatoshi Ito Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226387054 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 462
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During the first three decades following the Second World War, an increasingly open international trading system led to unprecedented economic growth throughout the world. But in recent years, that openness has been threatened by increased protectionism, regional trading arrangements—Europe 1992 and the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement—and setbacks in negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. In Trade and Protectionism, American and East Asian scholars consider the dangers of this trend for the world economy and especially for East Asian countries. The authors look at the current global trading system and at the potential threats to East Asian economies from possible regional arrangements, such as separate trading blocks in the Western Hemisphere and Europe. They cover trade between the United States and Japan, Korea and Japan, and Japanese-East Asian trade policies; trade in agriculture and semiconductors and the frictions that have jeopardized this trade; and direct foreign investment. The contributors round out the work with discussions of the political economy of protection in Korea and Taiwan and political economy considerations as they affect trade policy in general. This is the second volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research-East Asia Seminar on Economics. The first volume, The Political Economy of Tax Reform, also edited by Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger, addresses tax reform in the global economy.
Author: Tony Heron Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136293256 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 210
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Given the widely-accepted premise that free trade is the best means of maximising overall societal welfare, why has it proven so difficult to achieve in certain industries? This book tackles arguably the most perennial and deep-rooted of all questions in political economy, and questions the incumbent orthodox liberal theories of collective action. Using a historical institutionalist framework to explore and explain the political economy of trade protectionism and liberalization, this book is based on detailed case studies of the textiles and clothing sector in the EU, United States, China, Caribbean Basin and sub-Saharan Africa. From this, the book expands to discuss the origins of trade protectionism and examine the wider political effects of liberalization, offering an explanation of why a successful conclusion to the WTO ‘Doha’ round has proven to be so elusive. The book argues that the regulation of global trade - and the economic consequences that this has for both developed and developing countries - has been the result of the particular way in which trade preferences are mediated through political institutions. The Global Political Economy of Trade Protectionism and Liberalization will be of interest to those studying and researching international and comparative political economy, developing area studies, economics, law and geography.
Author: Reda Cherif Publisher: International Monetary Fund ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 41
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Industrial policies pursued in many developing countries in the 1950s-1970s largely failed while the industrial policies of the Asian Miracles succeeded. We argue that a key factor of success is industrial policy with export orientation in contrast to import substitution. Exporting encouraged competition, economies of scale, innovation, and local integration and provided market signals to policymakers. Even in a large market such as India, import substitution policies in the automotive industry failed because of micromanagement and misaligned incentives. We also analyze the risk tradeoffs involved in various industrial policy strategies and their implications on the 21st century industrial policies. While state interventions may be needed to develop some new capabilities and industries, trade protectionism is neither a necessary nor a sufficient tool and will most likely be counterproductive.
Author: Arvind Panagariya Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190914513 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 352
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Arguments for protection and against free trade have seen a revival in developed countries such as the United States and Great Britain as well as developing countries such as India. Given the clear benefits trade openness has brought everywhere, this is a surprising development. The benefits of free trade are especially great for emerging market economies. FreeÂTrade and ProsperityÂoffers the first full-scale defense of pro-free-trade policies with developing countries at its center. Arvind Panagariya, a professor at Columbia University and former top economic advisor to the government of India, supplies a historically informed analysis of many longstanding but flawed arguments for protection. He starts with an insightful overview of the positive case for free trade, and then closely examines the various contentions of protectionists. One protectionist argument is that "infant" industries need time to grow and become competitive, and thus should be sheltered. Other arguments are that emerging markets are especially prone to coordination failures, they are in need of diversification of their production structures, and they suffer from market imperfections. The panoply of protectionist arguments, including those for import substitution industrialization, fails when subject to close logical and empirical scrutiny. Free trade and outward-oriented policies are preconditions to both sustained rapid growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Panagariya provides compelling evidence demonstrating the failures of protectionism and the promise of free trade using detailed case studies of successful countries such as Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, China and India. Low or declining barriers to free trade and high or rising shares of trade in total income have been key elements in the sustained rapid growth and poverty alleviation in these countries and many others. Free trade is like oxygen: the benefits are ubiquitous and not noticed until they are no longer there. This important book is an essential reminder of the costs of protectionism.
Author: Mona Haddad Publisher: World Bank Publications ISBN: 0821386336 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 352
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The global financial crisis triggered a broad reassessment of economic integration policies in developed and developing countries worldwide. The crisis-induced collapse in trade was the sharpest ever since World War II, affecting all countries and all product categories. A huge shock to the trading system, combined with severe macroeconomic instability, makes it natural for policymakers to call into question the basic underlying assumptions of trade liberalization and openness. In particular, outward-oriented or export-led growth strategies are being reassessed as openness is increasingly associated with greater volatility. However, it is crucial not to lose sight of the dynamic benefits that openness can offer. Examples include technology transfer, increased competitive pressure that reduces markups and improves efficiency, and economies of scale. The real question is how to manage outward-oriented strategies so as to maximize the benefits of openness while minimizing risks. This book aims to contribute to this important and ongoing policy debate, bringing together recent empirical work on the trade collapse, its causes and consequences, and the broader trade policy agenda in the post-crisis environment. It addresses critical policy issues revolving around the topic of outward-oriented growth strategy, including policy instruments that help manage risks associated with outward-orientation, lessons learned from the crisis for particular countries and regions, and how emerging trade policy issues such as climate change, commodities, global production networking, and migration affect the prospects for recovery and outward-oriented growth.
Author: Tim Lang Publisher: Island Press ISBN: Category : Dış ticaret Languages : en Pages : 200
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This monograph questions the benefits of free trade, arguing that, far from promoting prosperity for all those involved, free trade only serves a narrow range of interests, primarily for the large corporations who conduct it. The authors claim that the consequences of present arrangements and those promised under the new GATT agreement will increase the difference between the world's rich and poor and accelerate the destruction of the global environment. The authors suggest instead that trading arrangements should emphasize regional self-sufficiency and the overall amount of trade should be reduced.
Author: Helen V. Milner Publisher: ISBN: 9780608029184 Category : Languages : en Pages : 343
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Why didn't the protectionist spiral of the 1920s reappear in the 1970s in light of similar economic and political realities? In "Resisting Protectionism," Helen Milner analyzes the growth of international economic interdependence and its effects on trade policy in the United States and France. She argues that the limited protectionist response of the 1970s stems from the growth of firms' international economic ties, which reduces their interest in protection by increasing its cost. Thus firms with greater international connections will be less protectionist than more domestically oriented firms. The book develops this thesis by examining the international ties of export dependence, multinationality, and global intra-firm trade. After studying selected U.S. industries, Milner also examines French firms to see if they respond to increased interdependence in the same way as American firms, despite their different historical, ideological, and political contexts.
Author: Zungun Deniz
Author: Zungun Deniz
Author: Richard E. Baldwin
Author: Helen V. Milner
Author: Takatoshi Ito
Author: Tony Heron
Author: Reda Cherif
Author: Arvind Panagariya
Author: Mona Haddad
Author: Tim Lang
Author: Helen V. Milner