their exports as well as other economic and trade policy characteristics. In the process, it defines clusters of countries … according to the multi-dimensional criteria defined by value-added, economic and trade policy indicators. Results show that … natural resources and services orientation are among the most determinant variables. The level of economic development remains …

Panel data on 54 developing countries between 1960 and 2000 are used to investigate how the impact of opening to trade … on economic growth is affected by wealth inequality. The results suggest (a) that opening to trade tends to accelerate …

This paper discuses the role of USAID in the development process in Egypt. It discusses the USAID role in Egypt in some … (TAPRII). I will discuss the items of the program that made the environment conducive to trade and investment. …

depends on the development objective of the country and the role envisaged for international trade. If the role of … govern trade and development. Such rules facilitate globalization but they are not particularly conducive to … international trade rules to make them development oriented. …

Does Trade Openness Favour or Hinder Industrialization and Development? Mehdi Shafaeddin* A paper prepared for the … Development Policies Branch, Globalization and Development Strategies Division of UNCTAD and the author of Trade Policy at the …) “Towards an Alternative Perspective on Trade and Industrial Policies”, Development and Change, 36.6:1143-1162. Shafaeddin 1 …

The author argues that although the collapse of the Doha “Development” Round in early summer of 2006 was triggered by … across-the-board and universal trade liberalization prescribed by neoliberals, he proposes the necessary changes in WTO rules … in order to make them conducive to industrialization and development. …

to improve the welfare of the exporting country, as well as its international terms of trade and export revenues. …The paper explores the impacts of resource export policies on major macro variables of the exporter and the importer … five markets (of factors and goods) as well as the volumes of output, consumption and international trade are all …

Abstract This author sheds some light on the theoretical arguments on the use of selectivity and uniformity of trade … policy in trade and industrialization for targeting industries and firms and provides a brief historical review of practices … preconditions for implementing “selective” (targeted) trade and industrial policies. Yet more, he discusses the implications of the …

Global supply chains reshaped international trade since the 1980s. Their role in explaining the trade collapse that … lead to a deterioration of global governance and to rampant deglobalization. On the other hand, because trade in goods for … processing inflated artificially some bilateral trade imbalances, correcting them will prove easier in the short term, while the …

countries in previous centuries, the author explains that trade liberalization is necessary for industrialization if: it is … regarded as a part and parcel of a dynamic and flexible trade and industrial policies; undertaken in the right time, gradually … and selectively. More importantly, trade policy is to be an ingredient of a comprehensive set of industrial and …