Format:
1 Online-Ressource (385 pages)
ISBN:
9780190914509
Content:
This volume offers a rousing defense of pro-free-trade policies and their benefits for developing countries. Through cross-country evidence and detailed case studies, Arvind Panagariya demonstrates the need for trade openness for sustained growth and poverty alleviation.
Content:
Cover -- Endorsement -- Free Trade and Prosperity -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Background and Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Setting the Stage -- Part I -- 2. The Positive Case for Trade Openness -- 3. The Mirage of Infant Industry Protection -- 4. Other Common Arguments for Protection -- Part II -- 5. Trade Openness, Growth, and Poverty: Exposing the Critics' Specious Arguments -- 6. Trade Openness and Growth: The Empirical Evidence -- 7. Trade Openness and Poverty: The Empirical Evidence -- 8. Trade Openness and Inequality -- Part III -- 9. The Uncontroversial Cases of Hong Kong and Singapore -- 10. Taiwan: An Early Triumph of Outward Orientation -- 11. South Korea: From Basket Case to Upper Middle Income -- Part IV -- 12. India: From Near Autarky to Near Free Trade -- 13. China: From Isolation to Global Dominance -- 14. Other Success Stories in Asia, Africa, and Latin America -- 15. In Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Comparative Advantage and the Gains from Trade Under Scale Economies -- Appendix 2: There Is No Logical Case for Infant Industry Protection -- Appendix 3: Measuring Inequality: The Gini Coefficient -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190914493
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Panagariya, Arvind, 1952 - Free trade and prosperity New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2019 ISBN 9780190914493
Language:
English
Keywords:
Asiatisch-Pazifischer Raum
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Schwellenländer
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Freihandel
;
Wirtschaftswachstum
;
Singapur
;
Taiwan
;
Südkorea
;
Hongkong
;
Indien
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