Putting Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in the Wto and International Financial Institutions

by Kevin P. Gallagher

Book Overview

Some of the world's most prominent development thinkers address the following question in this volume: to what extent are the rules and economic forces that govern the global economy shrinking the 'policy space' that developing countries can draw from in order to construct policies to raise the standards of living of their people? They then analyse the possibly considerable room for manoeuvre that developing countries still have at their disposal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842776355
• ISBN13: 9781842776353
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"