From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Wed May 02 2007 - 21:01:29 EDT
----- Original Message ----- From: GDAE Announce Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:35 PM Subject: The Case for Policy Space Relevance of 'Policy Space' for Development: Implications for Multilateral Trade Negotiations RIS Discussion Paper #120 Nagesh Kumar and Kevin P. Gallagher There remains a compelling case for policy intervention to foster industrial development in the global South, according to a new paper from an Indian research institute co-authored by Kevin P. Gallagher and Nagesh Kumar. The authors note that developed countries have consistently deployed industrial policy, performance requirements, soft intellectual property regimes, subsidies, government procurement, and regional economic integration among other policies in their own processes of industrializations. Many of these policies were successfully emulated by the newly industrializing economies in East Asia to build internationally competitive modern industries despite the lack of apparent comparative advantage. A development-friendly outcome of the Doha Round of World Trade Organization negotiations would provide flexibility from the intellectual property restrictions and investment obligations to facilitate rather than inhibit the transfer of technology to developing countries. This would give them the policy space they need to pursue industrial development. Download paper: <http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/RISDiscPaper120Apr07.pdf> For more on WTO: <http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/WTO05.htm> For more on GDAE's Globalization and Sustainable Development Program: <http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/globalization.html>
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