Re: Re: Re: Keeping focus after the WTO

["Patrick Bond" <pbond@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm no dependency theorist but it's very easy to show that in Africa
the two countries that industrialised most decisively -- South Africa
(1930s-40s) and Zimbabwe (1930s-40s and 1960s-70s) -- did so
because of less international trade/financial flows rather than more,
and vice versa: the 1990s' increase in trade and trade liberalisation
have also seen both countries' most decisive deindustrialisation.
(Mauritius during the 1970s-90s is the exception that proves the
rule, as a myriad of special factors applied.)

> Brad De Long wrote:
> > One view--a view that has evidence supporting it, but that I am not sure
> > is correct--is that our best chance for large-scale technology transfer
> > is free trade: more economic contact between center and periphery means
> > more technology transfer to the periphery.