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But “globalization” is not the same as the elimination of tariffs and other import
barriers
that confer rent-seeking advantages to politically influential domestic producers.
As Harvard University economist Dani Rodrik frequently points out, economic theory predicts that removing tariffs and non-tariff
barriers
does produce net gains; but it also results in large redistributions, wherein eliminating smaller
barriers
yields larger redistributions relative to the net gains.
And, of course, they should sustain pro-growth policies that boost overall job creation and reduce unemployment, while rejecting
barriers
to trade or innovation.
And the
barriers
to reform are political: unwillingness to face SOE job losses, particularly in China’s northern rust belt, and radical decentralization of economic decision-making to competing city and provincial governments.
And yet, while the incremental reduction of
barriers
to cross-border flows of capital, goods, and services has been a major achievement of recent decades, international migration has never been more strictly controlled.
A hundred years later, despite falling
barriers
to trade, finance, and information, the walls to free mobility have been built higher.
The focus on new areas of deep integration should not obscure the old-fashioned free-trade benefits that are also part of the TPP: reducing thousands of existing tariff and non-tariff
barriers.
But inclusivity is not only about removing physical barriers; it also means making deeper, more systemic changes to accommodate all learners – regardless of their physical or intellectual abilities, gender, ethnicity, or language.
Second, better data are needed to ensure that education planners know precisely how many children with disabilities are out of school, why they are absent, and what
barriers
to learning they face.
One is to enable small and microenterprises to grow, enter the formal economy, and become more productive, all of which requires removing many
barriers.
But entrepreneurs face daunting barriers, such as inadequate logistics, lack of consumer financing, poorly trained workers, consumer distrust of new technologies, high-cost marketing channels, backlash from existing merchants or moneylenders, and under-developed regulation.
The
barriers
to growth in the past were an unholy alliance among oligarchic interests and political parties, scandalous procurement, clientelism, the permanently broken media, overly accommodating banks, weak tax authorities, and a weighed-down, fearful judiciary.
But older people, living outside large urban areas, have voted instead to build
barriers
and – to a significant extent – attempt to close off the country from the rest of the world.
Though Chinese officials have spoken broadly of enhancing exchanges of people, easing restrictions on the use of foreign currency, and reducing trade barriers, reviving and modernizing the ancient Silk Road also requires functioning infrastructure focused on interoperability and multimodal connectivity.
Barriers
that restrict the flow of water are particularly disruptive to inland fisheries, for example.
The problem with inequality is not only that it obstructs the pursuit of collective goals and the common good; it also erects structural
barriers
to development, for example, through meager or regressive taxation and underinvestment in education, health, or infrastructure.
The rest of Eastern and Central Europe quickly followed, knocking down their own
barriers
to freedom.
Many of the disadvantaged belong to specific demographic groups that tend to fare worse than others in all countries, not least because they face similar economic, legal, political, and cultural
barriers.
And yet, as reflected in the stubborn persistence of the pay gap,
barriers
to women’s progress remain.
But they generally include removing rigidities and other
barriers
to competition in labor, product, and service markets; investment in skills, human capital, and the technology base of the economy; and rebuilding safety nets in ways that promote and support, rather than impede, structural adjustment.
Called “open innovation,” it turns the traditional R&D model on its head and removes
barriers
to collaboration.
For starters, China’s tariffs and non-tariff
barriers
are higher than those of the US and other high-income countries (though not higher that most developing countries with comparable income levels).
Reducing
barriers
to the Chinese market would benefit not only foreign producers, but also Chinese households and firms that use imported parts.
In fact, these countries’
barriers
on Chinese goods and investment are not as low as commonly believed.
It will remove trade
barriers
and boost investment in infrastructure so that African countries have the industrial capacity to compete globally.
Indeed, even if there were no trade
barriers
at all, trade might grow significantly more slowly than GDP in some periods.
Breaking the Asia-Pacific region’s glass ceiling will require dismantling several barriers, including cultural expectations that women should prioritize childcare over their careers, a lack of suitable or affordable childcare, unconscious bias in the workplace, and a scarcity of role models and sponsors.
Will you advocate a development round that emphasizes liberalization of labor markets more than capital markets, elimination of non-tariff
barriers
that keep developing countries’ goods out of advanced industrial countries, and abolition of so-called “escalating tariffs,” which impede development?
By contrast, when countries started abandoning the gold standard in 1931, tariff
barriers
had already gone up.
Beyond addressing institutional issues, however, China and the EU need to dismantle cultural and conceptual
barriers
to investment.
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