Critically examine the view that free trade alone is insufficient to promote economic development.

      

Critically examine the view that free trade alone is insufficient to promote economic development.

  

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Lydia
The trade versus aid debate has become more intense in recent years. Free market economists argue that reducing import barriers would do far more to promote development in LDCs than any amount of foreign aid. This view is challenged by a number of development economists who argue that the terms of trade are so biased against LDCs that free trade would be of little benefit. It would seem that free trade though important would not be sufficient to promote significant economic development in LDCs and that foreign aid programmes, however flawed, should remain.
lydiajane74 answered the question on July 5, 2018 at 08:19


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