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Over the course of less than three decades, trade barriers came down, and the combination of accessible airplane travel, satellite television, and the Internet has created a kind of interconnected “global village.”
With total economic growth outpacing world trade growth of less than 2.5%, globalization has been rolled back decades.
After all, the opponents of free trade ask, if Asia's tigers can be brought to their knees by international financial markets, is any developing country safe?
Assisted by international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the new World Trade Organization, an unprecedented number of governments in postcommunist and developing countries alike chose to integrate their peoples into the world system by opening their economies to international trade.
And yet, even very poor countries are beginning to believe that open trade may be their ticket to prosperity.
But as trade liberalization spreads to every corner of the globe vital questions arise.
Will trade boost economic growth?
If so, what can trade liberalization do for the cause of income equality across the world?
These findings confirm a basic truth of economics, one dating back two centuries to Adam Smith: open trade promotes growth.
The benefits of open trade, however, affect more than growth.
Open trade policies seem to have a positive effect on other macroeconomic variables crucial to the overall health of economies, acting as a sort of economic immune system booster.
(Although, as Thailand demonstrated, open trade policies are not foolproof in the face of other shortsighted government policies.)
While the effects of trade liberalization on growth are well established on both theoretical and empirical grounds, the question of what open trade can do for the cause of global income equality is less well understood.
The key, it seems, is to adopt and stick with open trade policies.
Other factors, in addition to trade policy, also matter, of course.
But this makes implementing open trade policies all the more crucial, because they are the best tools available to compensate for the bad cards which nature sometimes deals out.
The increasing integration of the Eastern periphery into a pan-European production process is part of a structural change that should boost trade by more than enough to compensate the dampening effects of falling growth in Western Europe.
Its people were first treated by the slave trade as mere commodities, necessary for economic growth elsewhere.
Colonialism and the slave trade constituted a historical rupture for Africa.
The victory of Gutierrez, who participated in the failed coup against President Jamil Mahuad in 2000, is a serious blow to speedy approval of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)--the Bush administration's effort to create a hemispheric trade bloc rivaling the European Union.
CONAIE opposes the FTAA and is advancing a proposal entitled Alternatives for the Americas , which offers a more balanced approach to trade liberalization.
So far, the Bush administration is playing tough and trying to force South American countries to submit by discussing trade agreements with Chile and Central America.
Maybe it is time, though, to look at why South America's peoples are voting for candidates who question free trade and America's military policy in the region.
For decades America seemed to dominate manufacturing, so US officials focused on liberalizing trade in manufactured goods.
Now, China is out-competing everyone, racking up huge trade surpluses with the US.
Countries were warned: avoid trade deficits and build up reserves, because they are the key frontline defense.
First, international trade is based on the principle of comparative advantage; countries export goods in which they have a relative advantage and import goods in which they have a relative disadvantage.
Secondly, if a country invests more than it saves, it will need to borrow, and the counterpart to that borrowing is a trade deficit.
America's burgeoning trade deficit is a result of the Bush Administration's unprecedented mismanagement.
In fact, China's overall trade surplus today is actually small, around 1% of its GDP.
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