Wed 2010-09-15 13:55 EDT

billy blog >> Blog Archive >> Export-led growth strategies will fail

Bill Mitchell

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) released their annual Trade and Development Report, 2010 yesterday (September 14, 2010). The 204 page report which I have been wading through today is full of interesting analysis and will take several blogs over the coming weeks to fully cover. The message is very clear. Export-led growth strategies are deeply flawed and austerity programs will worsen growth and increase poverty. UNCTAD consider a fundamental rethink has to occur where policy is reoriented towards domestic demand and employment creation. They consider an expansion of fiscal policy to be essential in the current economic climate as the threat of a wide-spread double dip recession increases. The Report is essential reading...

Billy Blog; blogs Archive; Export-led growth strategies; fail.

Thu 2009-02-26 00:00 EST

naked capitalism: Martin Wolf: Rethinking the Lessons of Japan's Debt Unwind

Japan's Debt Unwind; Lessons; Martin Wolf; naked capitalism; rethink.

Tue 2009-02-24 00:00 EST

AlterNet: Is the Entire Bailout Strategy Flawed? Let's Rethink This Before It's Too Late

by Joseph Stiglitz

AlterNet; Entire Bailout Strategy Flawed; lately; Let's Rethink.

Tue 2008-07-08 00:00 EDT

Jesse's Café Américain: Internal Report Urges Gulf States to Rethink Their Dollar Pegs

Jesse's Café Américain: Internal Report Urges Gulf States to Rethink Their Dollar Pegs; dollar losing reserve status

dollars pegged; Internal Report Urges Gulf States; Jesse's Café Américain; rethink.

Wed 2008-06-11 00:00 EDT

Jesse's Café Américain: What is Really Spooking Wall Street - Policy Change is in the Wind

Jesse's Café Américain: What is Really Spooking Wall Street - Policy Change is in the Wind; Joseph Stiglitz on rethinking growth; Jesse: we have ringside seats to history...times of change and crisis are times of volatility, fresh trends, and opportunity

Jesse's Café Américain; policy changes; Really Spooking Wall Street; wind.

Tue 2007-10-02 00:00 EDT

The Establishment Rethinks Globalization

by Willam Greider (The Nation 2007-04-30); Ralph Gomory "what established authorities teach Americans about global trade is simply wrong"

Establishment Rethinks Globalization.