The Bark Is Worse Than the Bite
New WTO Law and Late Industrialization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9748147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice H Amsden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author), Takashi Hikino (Kyoto University) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 570 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 104-114 |
| Publication date | 2000-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271620057000108 |
| OpenAlex | W1997143409 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 6 |
In spite of (or because of?) the successful industrialization of leading latecomers under a set of institutions that had deviated from free-market norms, by the 1990s the global economic order had formed around rather orthodox neoliberal principles. At close examination, however, the new rules of the World Trade Organization, a symbol of neoliberalism, are flexible and allow countries to continue to promote their industries under the banner of promoting science and technology. The success formula of late industrialization—allocating subsidies in exchange for monitorable, result-oriented performance standards—is still condoned. The problems bedeviling latecomers today are not formal legal constraints but informal political pressures exerted by North Atlantic economies in favor of radical market opening. Latecomers lack a vision to guide them in responding to this pressure
Banner · Bark (sound · Business · Economics · Geography · Industrialisation · Market economy · Neoliberalism (international relations · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Subsidy · Finance · Forestry · Global trade and economics · International Development and Aid · Law · World Trade Organization Law
Globalisation, Power and Integration
Wage Employment in Africa
High-Yielding Variety Policies in Africa
The Trade Imperative
Technical Change and Agricultural Productivity
Uneven, Contradictory, and Brutal Economic Development in Africa
Varieties of Common Sense
Unbalanced Development
Investment, Wage Goods, and Industrial Policy
Working Out the Solution to Rural Poverty
Industrial policy and comparative political economy
Say's Law, Poverty Persistence, and Employment Neglect
La Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) y la reducción del espacio para la política
Interpreters of International Economic Law
Economic Nationalism as a Challenge to Economic Liberalism? Lessons from the 19th Century
The geopolitical underpinning of global value chains and production networks
How much policy space still exists under the WTO? A comparative study of the automotive industry in Thailand and Malaysia
Exchanging development for market access? Deep integration and industrial policy under multilateral and regional-bilateral trade agreements
Transitioning from fast-follower to innovator
Asymmetric bargaining and development trade-offs in the Cariforum-European Union Economic Partnership Agreement
The WTO and the limits of distributive justice
Patents and pills, power and procedure
Disaggregating “China, Inc.”
Regulating via Conditionality
The New Developmentalism and the Challenges to Long-Term Stability in Brazil
State Transformation and the Role of Lawyers
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |