The Bark Is Worse Than the Bite: New WTO Law and Late Industrialization

Alice H. Amsden and Takashi Hikino
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Alice H. Amsden: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Takashi Hikino: Kyoto University

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2000, vol. 570, issue 1, 104-114

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2000
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