Globalization and Development

Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction, ASHWINI DESHPANDE; 2. Policy Space in Historical Perspective with special reference to Trade and Industrial Policies, HA-JOON CHANG; Part 1: Trade Regimes and Exchange Rate Policies: 3. Special and Differential Treatment in Trade Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of GATT, WTO, FTAA and COTONOU, PAVEL ISA-CONTRERAS AND MIGUEL CEARA-HATTON; 4. Limits to Universal Trade Liberalization: Experience of South Asia in Textiles and Clothing Sector, P.L. BEENA; Part 2: Financial Fragility, Currency Convertibility, and Monetary Policy: 5. Core-Periphery Asymmetry, Triangular Adjustment patterns, and the Export of Fragility: A Stock-Flow Consistent Model, RAMAA VASUDEVAN; 6. Economic Openness, Financial Fragility and Corporate Finance: A Minskyian Perspective on Argentina's 2001 Crisis, MARTIN P. ABELES; 7. Trust, Freedom, and Wealth Creation: A Political Economy of Dollarization in Lebanon, ARMEN V. PAPAZIAN : 8. 'Good Governance' in Monetary Policy and the Negative Real Effects of Inflation Targeting in Developing Economies, GILBERTO A. LIBANIO; Part 3: Labour and Employment: 9. The Dynamics of Manufacturing Employment in South Africa, FIONA TREGENNA; 10. The Evolution of Wage Differentials under the Export-Led Regime in Turkish Manufacturing Industry: A Cluster Analysis, EMEL MEMIS; 11. Labour Market Participation Decisions of Married Women: Evidence from Turkey, A. BURCA KIZILIRMAK; Part 4: Issues in Cross-National Growth Comparisons: 12. Fractionalization Indexes and Economic Growth: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa, J.W. FEDDERKE, J.M. LUIZ, and R.H.J. DE KADT; Part 5: Lessons From China: 13. Targeted FDI Promotion Strategy: Attracting the 'Right' FDI for Development, JINKANG ZHANG; 14. China in Perspective: From Economic 'Miracle' to Human Development?, MARIO BIGGERI ; Part 6: Creating Policy Space: 15. India's Employment Guarantee Act: Reclaiming Policy Space, JEAN DRÈZE, Appendices.