Overview

In recent years developing countries have come under increasing international pressure to liberalise their trade regimes. In particular many aid and adjustment programmes recommend that import controls are relaxed. This advice is normally based on theoretical considerations of optimal' specialisation and insertion in international trade or on empirical studies demonstrating the counter productive effects of policies aimed at protecting domestic industry or promoting import substitution. Foreign Trade Reforms and Development Strategy argues that trade liberalisation is in fact inappropriate for many developing countries. The theoretical framework on which it is predicted takes no account of the instability of the international environment, regressive international specialisations or domestic and international financial problems. Nor is the empirical evidence for liberalisation all that robust. In other words, we know very little about the consequences of one of the major reforms advocated by Structural Adjustment Programmes. In many cases, long-term strategic considerations are being jettisoned because of short term constraints.

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Author:   Jean-Marc Fontaine ,  Jean-Marc Fontaine
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9780415072946

ISBN 10:   0415072948
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   04 June 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Jean-Marc Fontaine 1. Structural Adjustment: A General Overview, 1960-1989 Paul Mosley 2. An Overview of Trade Policy Reform with implications for Sub-Saharan Africa John Nash 3. Import Controls and the Sequencing of Trade Policy Reform David Evans 4. The Effect of Trade Liberalisation on Industrial Sector Productivity Performance in Developing Countries Colin Kirkpatrick and Jassodra Maharaj 5. Trade Reform and Growth Resumption in Latin America Jose Maria Fanelli, Roberto Frenkel and Guillermo Rozenwurcel 6. Protectionist Pressures in the 1990s and the Coherence of North-South Trade Policies Juan A. de Castro 7. Inter-African Integration and Protection Policies: Unavoidable Failure of Missed Opportunities? Jean Coussy 8. Import Liberalization and the New Industrial Policy in Senegal Anne Marie Geourjon 9. Impact of Price Based and Quantity Based Import Control Measures in Nigeria Ademola Oyejide 10. Import Liberalisation in Kenya Jean-Marc Fontaine 11. Industrialisation Strategies, Foreign Trade Regimes and Structural Change in Turkey, 1980-1988 Nurhan Yenturk-Coban 12. Exchange Rates and Subsidies in an Export Promotion Policy: The Case of South Korea Mario Lanzarotti

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