Category: TRADE AND INVESTMENT RULES

The Clash of Globalizations: Essays on the Political Economy of Trade and Development Policy

Collecting and synthesizing a series of essays on the political economy of trade and development policy, this book by Kevin P. Gallagher explores the following research questions: to what extent is the global trading regime reducing the ability of nation-states to pursue policies for financial stability and economic growth; and what political factors explain such […]

Handbook on Trade and the Environment

In this comprehensive reference work, Kevin P. Gallagher has compiled a fresh and broad-ranging collection of expert voices commenting on the interdisciplinary field of trade and the environment. For over two decades policymakers and scholars have been struggling to understand the relationship between international trade in a globalizing world and its effects on the natural […]

Putting Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in the WTO and IFIs

By Kevin Gallagher (September 2005) This book examines how far the economic forces and rules that govern the global economy are shrinking the “policy space” available to developing countries in constructing policies to raise living standards. The contributors analyze what room for movement developing countries still have, despite global macro-economic realities, IMF/World Bank policies, and […]