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.

1. Introduction -- 2. China's growth : from ideology to economic superpower -- 3. China's income inequality : moving up and sustainable? -- 4. India's growth : from Hindu rate to East Asian levels -- 5. India : the issue of inequality -- 6. Singapore's growth : the making of the global...