The rush free trade in the developing world : why so late? why now? will it last? /

This paper asks why developing country policymakers have been so reluctant to undertake trade reform until the 1980s, and why many of them have embraced open trade policies so wholeheartedly since then. To answer these questions, the paper develops a heuristic index of the "political cost-benef...

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Main Author: Rodrik, Dani, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1992
Series:Working paper series ; no 3947
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Online Access:http://www.nber.org/papers/w3947.pdf