Trade and industrial policies in an evolving global governance regime

As the international community rethinks its goals for a post-2015 development agenda to succeed the Millennium Development Goals, it is imperative to ensure that effective policy instruments are available to countries to enable them to achieve the agreed goals and advance the agenda. This chapter argues that recent experience, historical evidence and theoretical insights all point to the role that proactive trade and industrial policies must play in that agenda.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development