Trade reform in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s was in significant part a reform of policy-making institutions. The institutions that existed when the reforms began had been created in response to particular protectionist pressures at particular times, and afterward they were controlled by the interests on whose behalf they had been created. This book was prompted by preliminary evidence suggesting that the reforms have been better sustained in Peru than in Argentina. Peru has continued its liberalization whereas Argentina has imposed a number of new trade restrictions. Moreover, decisions on many of Argentina's restrictions have not gone through the new mechanisms. The objective of this book is to draw lessons from Peruvian and Argentine experience that will be useful to governments that want to maintain an open trade regime. From a positive perspective, the authors want to identify what the Peruvian government has done that has kept its liberalization moving forward. The Peru study focuses on how reform leaders in that country have reinforced the evolution of a new management culture and how they have disseminated widely in Peruvian society a positive vision of Peru in the international economy.
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Baracat,Elias Antonio, Finger,Joseph Michael, Nogues,Julio, Leon Thorne,Raul Matias
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Document Date
2013/01/01
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79618
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1
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1
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2019/04/29
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Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Doc Name
Sustaining trade reform : institutional lessons from Argentina and Peru
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Keywords
general agreement on tariffs and trade;Trade Policy;Trade Policies;political economy of trade policy;institutional economics;negotiation of free trade agreement;trade remedy;social structure;domestic politics;balance of payment;liberal trade policy;gdp growth rate;open trade policies;trade policy decisions;commercial policy;
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Baracat,Elias Antonio Finger,Joseph Michael Nogues,Julio Leon Thorne,Raul Matias
Sustaining trade reform : institutional lessons from Argentina and Peru (English). Directions in development : trade Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/782131468003316059/Sustaining-trade-reform-institutional-lessons-from-Argentina-and-Peru