There are some good arguments that in some cases, developing countries can benefit from protecting some of their own nascent industries.
There are basically no arguments that the developed world putting tariffs (or anti dumping duties) on imports helps the developing world, which is the harmful scenario Karthik discusses in his article as an example of Nunn’s argument that rich countries should stop doing things that harm poorer countries. Developed countries know full well these limit poorer countries’ ability to export to them… but that’s also why they impose them
Yeah, I know what I described is not really relevant to Karthik’s argument. But we don’t want a situation where people hear “free trade is good, economists agree” and then decide to lobby for developing countries to drop their trade barriers in cases where that is actually harmful.
There are some good arguments that in some cases, developing countries can benefit from protecting some of their own nascent industries.
There are basically no arguments that the developed world putting tariffs (or anti dumping duties) on imports helps the developing world, which is the harmful scenario Karthik discusses in his article as an example of Nunn’s argument that rich countries should stop doing things that harm poorer countries. Developed countries know full well these limit poorer countries’ ability to export to them… but that’s also why they impose them
Yeah, I know what I described is not really relevant to Karthik’s argument. But we don’t want a situation where people hear “free trade is good, economists agree” and then decide to lobby for developing countries to drop their trade barriers in cases where that is actually harmful.
Fair. I agree with this
Plenty of entities who aren’t EAs doing that sort of lobbying already anyway