Putting Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in the WTO and International Financial Institutions

by Kevin P. Gallagher (Editor)

This book examines how far the economic forces and rules that govern the global economy are shrinking the "policy space" available to developing countries in constructing policies to raise living standards. The contributors analyze what room for movement developing countries still have, despite global macro-economic realities, IMF/World Bank policies, and the trade rules regime of the World Trade Organization. They suggest the policies that could be put in place to strengthen developing countries.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published October 7, 2005

About the author

Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of international relations at Boston University and senior researcher at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. He has a monthly column in the Guardian (UK) and is also a poet. He lives with his wife and two children in Newton, MA.