Globalization and the Nation-State: Reasserting Policy Autonomy for Development
Author(s)
Gallagher, Kevin P.
Abstract
Key among developing nation concerns is the worry that additional development commitments under the WTO (World Trade Organization) and in other regimes will not give them the “policy space” to use the very instruments and tools that many industrialized nations took advantage of to reach their current levels of development. This article sets the stage for the rest of the volume by qualifying the current state of thought around “Commitment to Development”; “Trade, Growth, and Development; “The Developmental State”; “The Shrinking of Policy Space”; and proposals on how the developing world should act.
