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International Economics

International Economics. Lecture 15: Trade Policy – Challenges. Overview. Links for the Group Assignment Graph: Developing countries opening to trade Globalisation and low-wage labour Globalisation and culture Globalisation and the environment The WTO and national independence.

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International Economics

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  1. International Economics Lecture 15: Trade Policy – Challenges

  2. Overview • Links for the Group Assignment • Graph: Developing countries opening to trade • Globalisation and low-wage labour • Globalisation and culture • Globalisation and the environment • The WTO and national independence

  3. Links for the Group Assignment • The Bank of Papua New Guinea Monetary Policy Statements • See: https://www.bankpng.gov.pg/bi-annual-statements • WTO, trade profile: • http://stat.wto.org/CountryProfile/WSDBCountryPFView.aspx?Country=PG&Language=F

  4. Links for the Group Assignment • United Nations, trade profile: • http://comtrade.un.org/pb/FileFetch.aspx?docID=5393&type=country%20pages • The World Bank, trade profile: • http://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/PNG • ANU Development Policy Blog: • http://devpolicy.org/papua-new-guinea-an-assessment-of-trade-performance-20141106/

  5. Links for the Group Assignment • PLUS: • Simply google “papua new guinea trade policy” !! • I found lots of good resources!

  6. Links for the Group Assignment • Import cover: • Sometimes called the import ratio • It is the ratio of a country’s total imports to that country’s total foreign exchange reserves • Also see: http://www.economist.com/node/16793524

  7. Year of trade liberalisation: South Korea: 1962 China: 1978 India: 1991

  8. Free trade v. protectionism The (bad) arguments for protection: • Infant-industry argument • Argument is that industries need time to establish, so that they can compete with overseas firm • But can governments pick winners? • How do we know if the industry is an are of comparative advantage? • And does the ‘infant’ ever grow up? • Elite capture of protectionist policies

  9. Free trade v. protectionism The (bad) arguments for protection (cont.): • The dumping argument • Foreign firms may dump cheap products on a country that undercut local businesses and drive them out of business, allowing the foreign firms to capture the industry • But in practice, few foreign firms have enough power to dominate a market where there more foreign competition is allowed!

  10. Free trade v. protectionism The (bad) arguments for protection (cont.): • Saves jobs • International trade does destroy jobs, but it creates jobs too – price signals reallocate labour to where they are more efficient!

  11. Free trade v. protectionism The (bad) arguments for protection (cont.): • Allows rich countries to compete with cheap foreign labour • Wages are related to productivity when there is free competition • Rich countries have higher average productivity… so they don’t need protection to compete!

  12. Free trade v. protectionism The (bad) arguments for protection (cont.): • Prevents rich countries from exploiting developing countries • Trading with developing countries increases the demand for their products, thus leading to increases in wages… • None of this is to justify exploitation, but the alternative may be to deprive impoverished people of their livelihoods!

  13. Free trade v. protectionism The (bad) arguments for protection (cont.): • Penalises lax environmental standards • Often, poor countries need to increase their income in order to improve their capacity to undertake environmental protection • The Environmental Kuznets Curve • Not trading with developing countries denies them this chance to increase protection!

  14. Environmental Kuznets Curve

  15. Free trade v. protectionism Conclusion • Overall, the empirical evidence points toward free trade being the much better choice • But whilst free trade creates more winners… …it does also create losers

  16. Free trade v. protectionism • Losses to the losers are highly concentrated, whilst the benefits to the winners (usually consumers) are thinly spread • Consumers are usually not even aware how they are benefitting!! • Compelling argument that economic losers should be compensated so that they can adjust to the new economic reality • E.g. Provision of training

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