Trade and Growth : Still Disagreement about the Relationships
[摘要] The relationships between trade and growth have long been a subject of considerable controversy among economists. In the early post-World War II period, many economic leaders concluded that protective trade policies stimulated growth, and import substitution policies were widely adopted by developing countries. By the 1980s, however, country-specific and general cross-country analyses had demonstrated the failure of the import substitution approach, and consequently export-oriented policies were widely adopted. While subsequent cross-country studies have generally indicated the growth effectiveness of outward-looking policies, recent criticisms of these studies (by Rodriguez and Rodrik, 1999, in particular) have called this conclusion into question ...
[发布日期] 2000-10-12 [发布机构] Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
[效力级别] [学科分类] 社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）
[关键词] trade policy;trade and growth;economic development [时效性]
