This book provides the first general theory, grounded in comparative historical analysis, that aims to explain the variation in the models of economic liberalization across Ibero-America in the last ...

Economic growth was to be achieved through an export-led strategy rather than one on import substitution. Economic liberalisation in 1977 marked a watershed in the country's economic policies. The ...

For example, the European Commission ... market access is achieved. Further liberalization—by both industrial and developing countries—will be needed to realize trade's potential as a driving force ...

For example, the recent rise in world ... which has boosted their economic growth. The reduction in import tariffs, which has been an integral part of the trade-liberalization strategy, appears to ...

And it marks an end to India's three-decade flirtation with market liberalization ... without consulting his own economic advisers or the Parliament, lest rich hoarders catch wind and ditch ...

Economic liberalization has been contested and defeated in France to an unparalleled extent in comparison to other leading political economies in Western Europe. Levy offers a historical explanation, ...