期刊名称：The Journal of International Trade and Diplomacy
印刷版ISSN：1306-1542
出版年度：2008
卷号：2
期号：2
页码：55-96
出版社：Ankara
摘要：There is less appetite for further liberalisation and associated structural
reforms now compared with the heyday of the Washington Consensus in the
1980s and 1990s. Reforms have not been reversed, but their forward
momentum has slowed. Governments are more sceptical and defensive
about further liberalisation; there has been relatively little in the way of
“second-generation” reforms (in domestic trade-related regulations and
institutions) to underpin external liberalisation and boost competition. The
last two years have seen creeping protectionism (rather than major
liberalisation-reversal), e.g. FDI restrictions to protect “national champions”
in “strategic” sectors, and export controls on agricultural and other
commodities to combat food and fuel inflation. It is a matter of speculation
whether protectionism will accelerate in response to global financial crisis,
but the chances of that happening are increasingly evident.
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