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

Wade, Robert

doi:10.1080/09692290310001601902

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“…Despite the rhetoric of 'ownership', aid was allocated largely according to donors' results-oriented criteria, rather than recipients' needs. The space for alternative discourses and approaches to development shrunk considerably (Wade, 2003).…”

Section: Methods Of Human Security: Opportunities and Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualizing human security: A ‘deprivation–vulnerability’ approach

Busumtwi-Sam

2008

Policy and Society

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Devising a more precise operational definition of human security has been elusive, hampering efforts to create an effective global framework. This article develops a framework for operationalizing a development-oriented approach to human security that establishes clear research and policy priorities. The analysis stakes out a middle ground between expansive and narrower human security approaches revealing they are not as polarized as sometimes portrayed, and argues that human security and human development are distinct but complementary; whereas the former is a relative condition and the latter is a longer-term process. The paper proposes a deprivation–vulnerability approach to human security, based on the analysis of threats and vulnerabilities conditioned by deprivations and exclusions, and takes initial steps at developing a human security risk management model that initially prioritizes populations more vulnerable to harm.

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Section: Methods Of Human Security: Opportunities and Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualizing human security: A ‘deprivation–vulnerability’ approach

Busumtwi-Sam

2008

Policy and Society

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“…Thirdly, international trade rules have forced many countries into rapid and comprehensive trade liberalisation. As Chang (2002) has highlighted, this runs counter to the historic experience of the richer nations, the majority of whom made tactical use of protectionist policies combined with investment in key sectors to develop their manufacturing sectors, before liberalising (see also Rodrik 2001;Wade 2003;Gallagher 2008). …”

Section: International Inequality and Povertymentioning

confidence: 96%

“…There are four particular aspects of international trade laws that adversely impact developing countries -particularly the least developed countries (LDCs) -and thus directly affect poverty. Firstly, international trade rules have enable developed nations to continue to use tariff and non-tariff barriers to prevent developing countries from entering markets in which they may have a comparative advantage (Wade 2003;Bardhan 2006). Secondly, trade rules have allowed developed countries to use agricultural subsidies to lower world prices preventing developing country producers from being able to compete with agricultural producers from richer nations (Charlton and Stiglitz 2005;Khor 2005).…”

Section: International Inequality and Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

International Inequality and World Poverty: A Quantitative Structural Analysis

Dasandi

2013

New Political Economy

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Dominant explanations within the existing development literature for the differences in poverty levels around the world have tended to ignore the influence of international inequality on poverty, instead focusing solely on domestic factors. In this paper, I conduct a regression analysis of the effect of inequality between countries on world poverty between 1980 and 2007, employing a new structural measure of international inequality which is created using social network analysis to calculate countries' positions in international trade networks. Countries' infant mortality rates are used to measure poverty. The results of the empirical analysis provide cross-country evidence to demonstrate that structural inequalities in the international system have a significant impact on poverty around the world. As such, the analysis demonstrates the need to move beyond focusing exclusively on domestic attributes of developing countries towards considering the broader international political economy in analysing contemporary poverty.

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“…Though it seems counter-intuitive, WTO rules may be less malignant than the requirements under the proliferating bilateral and multilateral trade and investment agreements, which often contain deeper neoliberal qualities and have been labelled as "globalization plus" (Wade, 2003). Many of these agreements prohibit import and export restrictions on food and decrease the scope for states to use public health and safety interests to regulate trade.…”

Section: Wto Power Entrenched But Not Immutablementioning

confidence: 99%