The role of trade-led economic growth in fostering development: Lessons for the post-2015 development agenda

Shishir Priyadarshi and Trineesh Biswas

No ERSD-2014-10, WTO Staff Working Papers from World Trade Organization (WTO), Economic Research and Statistics Division

Abstract: This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development progress, and makes the case that the post-2015 development agenda should include considerations related to trade rules and supply-side capacity. Given the strong links between trade-led growth, economic upgrading, and poverty reduction, the paper argues that trade led economic growth must be prioritised in the post-2015 development agenda.

Keywords: UN; Millennium Development Goals; Post-2015 Development Agenda; GATT WTO; trade; growth; development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N4 O1 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.30875/ebe144f5-en

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