Trade Policy Making in a Small Island Economy: The WTO Review of the Maldives
The purpose of this paper is to examine trade policy regime and trade-related development issues in the Maldives on the basis of the Trade Policy Review Maldives 2003 of the WTO. The key theme of the paper is that, given the narrow resource base and small domestic market, openness to foreign trade and investment remains the 'natural' policy choice for a small developing economy like the Maldives. Since the late 1980s, the Maldivian government has made considerable progress in implementing policy reforms driven by this conviction. However, the reform process is far from complete. High import tariffs maintained predominantly on revenue considerations, a large direct role played by the public sector in foreign trade and some key sectors of the economy, lack of transparency in duty concessions and other investment incentives, failure to incorporate environmental concerns as part of the national development policy, and delays in meeting reform commitments under the WTO are among the key items of the unfinished reform agenda. Copyright 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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2004
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Authors: | Athukorala, Prema-chandra |
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The World Economy. - Wiley Blackwell. - Vol. 27.2004, 9, p. 1401-1419
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Wiley Blackwell |
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