Trade Policy Issues for the Developing Countries in the 1980s: A Background Study for World Development Report, 1981

摘要

The paper explores the relation between trade policy and 'industrial policy' and calls attention to points of conflict and compatability. Suggestions are offered for a revised approach to trade adjustment assistance. Other topics discussed are: efforts to achieve 'fair labor standards' in the third world and the implications of such standards for protectionism and for World Bank policy; trade among developing countries, including as assessment of the options for encouraging it through regional, preferential, and unilateral appraoches; and trade in services, including the interest of the developing countries in current efforts to liberalize this sector, which has thus far been neglected in international trade negotiations. (Copyright (c) by the World Bank 1981.)