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These firms have no interest in
developing
modern institutions that protect private property and promote the rule of law.
Given current political constraints,
developing
a TTIP with maximum impact will not be easy, and it will require some creative thinking – like that which facilitated the Paris climate agreement last December.
Today, China and a few large
developing
countries have become the world’s growth leaders.
Development thinking then shifted to the neoliberal Washington Consensus: privatization, liberalization, and stabilization would introduce to
developing
countries the idealized market institutions that had been established in advanced countries.
The results of the Washington Consensus reforms were at best controversial, and some economists have even described the 1980’s and 1990’s as “lost decades” in many
developing
countries.
Given persistent poverty in
developing
countries, bilateral donors and the global development community increasingly focused on education and health programs, both for humanitarian reasons and to generate growth.
Development thinking so far has focused on what
developing
countries do not have (developed countries’ capital-intensive industries); on areas in which developed countries perform better (Washington Consensus policies and governance); or on areas that are important from a humanitarian point of view but do not directly contribute to structural change (health and education).
Developing
countries may benefit from the advantage of backwardness by replicating the structural change that has already occurred in higher-income countries.
Based on the experiences of successful countries, every
developing
country has the potential to sustain 8% annual growth (or higher) for several decades, and to become a middle- or even a high-income country in one or two generations.
That interpretation contradicts those (including me) who, not long ago, were anticipating a switchover in the engines of the global economy, with autonomous sources of growth in emerging and
developing
economies compensating for the drag of struggling advanced economies.
The crisis thus led to the demise of China’s export-led growth model, which had helped to buoy commodity prices and, in turn, bolster GDP growth in commodity-exporting
developing
countries.
But
developing
countries’ economic performance was still expected to decouple from that of developed countries and drive global output by finding new, relatively autonomous sources of growth.
According to this view, healthy public and private balance sheets and existing infrastructure bottlenecks would provide room for increased investment and higher total factor productivity in many
developing
countries.
At the same time, rapidly growing middle classes across the
developing
world would constitute a new source of demand.
With their share of global GDP increasing,
developing
countries would sustain relative demand for commodities, thereby preventing prices from reverting to the low levels that prevailed in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
Improvements in the quality of
developing
countries’ economic policies in the decade preceding the global financial crisis – reflected in the broad scope available to them in responding to it – reinforced this optimism.
Moreover, huge waves of migrants from
developing
countries to OECD countries challenge the assimilation capacity of the latter and deprive the former of its educated work force.
Migration from
developing
countries partly reflects a problem that also triggered the current financial crisis: international capital flowed in the wrong direction.
In 2007 alone, the US imported $790 billion of capital, while the emerging and
developing
countries exported $714 billion.
Financing for the most expensive projects – implementing green-energy systems, building transport infrastructure, and
developing
modern cities – must come from foreign institutional investors.
While inequality has decreased across countries, it has increased within them, in the advanced and
developing
worlds alike.
That is why it is so disappointing that, despite heightened awareness of inequality, the IMF/World Bank meetings – a gathering of thousands of policymakers, private-sector participants, and journalists, which included seminars on inequality in advanced countries and
developing
regions alike – failed to make a consequential impact on the policy agenda.
China, which has invested billions of dollars in
developing
Afghanistan’s natural resources –investments protected, ironically, by the US – would be certain to experience greater unrest in Xinjiang Province, home to millions of disaffected Muslims.
Its WTO commitments are the strongest of any
developing
country.
China narrowed the trade policy gap with other
developing
countries, bringing average tariffs down to Southeast Asian and Latin American levels (about 10%) and establishing comparable openness to foreign direct investment (FDI).
Of the twenty or so active
developing
and newly developed countries in the WTO, almost half come from the region.
Russia had a highly educated labor force, with advanced technological capabilities;Iraq is a
developing
country.
Its experience in reducing energy intensity can serve as a roadmap for
developing
countries.
Meanwhile,
developing
countries are increasingly questioning whether Chinese investment is really helping them.
It makes little sense for
developing
countries to reject outright the lessons of China’s economic miracle, and deepening hostility between China and the West is in nobody’s interest.
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