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• 2009

Pages: 152

ISBN: 9788171887668

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Trade, Growth and Poverty Reduction

Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small States in the Global Economic System

T.N. Srinivasan

Description

Why have the least developed countries, and other poorer countries, failed to grow as fast as other economies during recent period of globalisation?
Professor Srinivasan explores the broad links between growth in income, globalisation, and poverty reduction.

He argues that past domestic and international policies have failed to serve the interests of the poorest countries, and suggests that the current array of international institution, in their unreformed state, are ill-suited to bring about the change required.

Finally he makes recommendations on needed reforms to the institutions that manage the global economic system.

About the Author(s) / Editor(s)

T.N. Srinivasan is Samuel C. Park, Jr. Professor of Economics at Yale University, USA. Formerly a Professor, and later Research Professor, at the Indian Statisti-cal Institute, Delhi (1964-1977), he has taught at numerous universities in the US.

His research interests include theory of lobbying and rent-seeking; non-market contractual arrangements; multilateral trading system and developing countries; regionalism and multilateralism.

His teaching areas are international trade, economic develpoment and economic theory.

Professor Srinivasan has numerous books, published lectures and scholarly articles to his credit.

Contents in detail:

Acknowledgements

Acronyms

Overview

1. Introduction

2. Trade, Growth and Poverty Reduction

2.1 Globalisation and Growth

2.2 Growth and Poverty Reduction

2.3 Growth and Inequality

2.4 Globalisation and Poverty Reduction

2.5 Globalisation for the Poor

3. Salient Characteristics of Least-Developed
Countries

3.1 Criteria for Addition to and Graduation
from the List of LDCs

3.2 Implications of the Criteria

3.3 Classical Theory of Comparative Advantage
and Small and Vulnerable States

4. Cooperation between Developed and Developing Countries
to Strengthen the Links between Trade, Growth and
Poverty Reduction

4.1 Temporal and Spatial Heterogeneity of the Links
and their Strength

4.2 Growing Doubts on the Benefits of Globalisation
in Developed Countries

4.3 Historical Ambivalence of Developing Countries
towards Trade Openness and Multilateral Trade
Agreements

4.4 Developing Countries in the WTO

4.5 Accelerating and Sustaining Growth in
LDCs and Small Economies

4.6 The Voice of LDCs in International
Organisations and Negotiations

4.7 Programmes of Action for the LDCs

5. Doha Round and the Least-Developed Countries

6. Making Global Partnership for Development More
Effective: Some Recommendations

6.1 Is there a 'Global Partnership for Development'?

6.2 Some Recommendations

References

Index