Free trade and prosperity : how openness helps developing countries grow richer and combat poverty /
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| Author / Creator: | Panagariya, Arvind, author. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] |
| Description: | xiv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11900483 |
Table of Contents:
- Background and Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1. Setting the Stage
- Part I. Why Free Trade Matters
- 2. The Positive Case for Trade Openness
- 3. The Mirage of Infant Industry Protection
- 4. Other Common Arguments for Protection
- Part II. Trade, Growth, Poverty, and Inequality
- 5. Trade Openness, Growth, and Poverty: Exposing the Critics' Specious Arguments
- 6. Trade Openness and Growth: The Empirical Evidence
- 7. Trade Openness and Poverty: The Empirical Evidence
- 8. Trade Openness and Inequality
- Part III. Miracles of Yesteryear
- 9. The Uncontroversial Cases of Hong Kong and Singapore
- 10. Taiwan: An Early Triumph of Outward Orientation
- 11. South Korea: From Basket Case to Upper Middle Income
- Part IV. Miracles of Today
- 12. India: From Near Autarky to Near Free Trade
- 13. China: From Isolation to Global Dominance
- 14. Other Success Stories in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
- 15. In Conclusion
- Appendix 1. Comparative Advantage and the Gains from Trade Under Scale Economies
- Appendix 2. There Is No Logical Case for Infant Industry Protection
- Appendix 3. Measuring Inequality: The Gird Coefficient
- References
- Index
