What strategies are viable for developing countries today? The World Trade Organization and the shrinking of ‘development space’

By Robert H. Wade. 2003

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Rising powers and global governance: negotiating change in a resilient status quo (2013, background): “In such circumstances, it was difficult for critics of the neoliberal orthodoxy to get much of a hearing, much less carve out the policy space in which alternative paradigms might be adopted (Wade, 2003).”
IMF conditionality and development policy space, 1985–2014 (2016, result): “…space applies to countries at all income levels that are under distress and IMF supervision, and is similar to that of other scholars in this field (Chang 2006; Cooper 1968; DiCaprio and Gallagher 2006; Gallagher 2010; Grabel 2011; Kumar and Gallagher 2007; Mayer 2008; Shadlen 2005; Wade 2003).”
Entrepreneurship, innovation, and corruption (2009, result): “The research data about patent activity in lesser developed nations is also consistent with this hypothesis (da Motta e Albuquerque, 2000; Lerner, 2002; Wade, 2003).”
Return of industrial policy? (2012, neutral): “It is often said that the rules of the international economic order constitute a big constraint on effective industrial policy; and it is true that World Trade Organization rules make a large part of East Asia’s earlier development interventions actionable or illegal (Wade 2003).”
Outsourcing governance: states and the politics of a ‘global value chain world’ (2017, background): “Neo-liberalism pushed by one set of states shrank the ‘policy space’ available to others (Wade 2003).”
Fighting Standards with Standards: Harmonization, Rents, and Social Accountability in Certified Agrofood Networks (2005, background): “To make these points, I draw upon the work of value-chain theorists Gereffi, Kaplinsky, and Robert Fitter.”
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AS AN INDUSTRIAL POLICY TOOL: AN OPTION FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES? (2010, background): “While some researchers argue that WTO agreements are asymmetrical (“developing countries’ rights and developed country obligations are unenforceable,” [Wade, 2003, p. 624]), others argue that developing countries should in fact cooperate in the WTO to try to enforce the agreements also on the…”
Exchanging development for market access? Deep integration and industrial policy under multilateral and regional-bilateral trade agreements (2005, neutral): “Writing about the WTO, for example, Amsden and Hikino (2000) and Tussie (1997) emphasize that developing countries have significant degrees of discretion for autonomous policy formulation, while Rodrik (2001), UNDP (2003), and Wade (2003) depict a considerablymore restrictive environment.”
Long-term global availability of food: continued abundance or new scarcity? (2008, background): “Such policies were introduced by 'developmental states' (see also Onis, 1991; Wade, 2003; Wong, 2004) that were stimulated by a well-developed rural middle class, a relatively autonomous political class, and class-based interest articulation - conditions that stemmed from a long history of agricultu”