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Cardiac arrest or dizzy spell: why is world trade so weak and what can policy do about it?, Main Paper World trade growth was rapid in the two decades prior to the global financial crisis but has halved subsequently. The slowdown in world trade growth post crisis, if sustained, will have serious consequences for the medium-term growth of productivity and living standards. Trade policy has significant potential to reinvigorate trade growth but the political environment for reforms is difficult, with a growing polarisation of OECD electorates into pro- and anti-globalisation supporters. Further trade and investment policy liberalisation should be introduced as part of a wider package of structural reforms to spread the benefits of freer trade and investment more widely.
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Referenced Economics Department Working Papers:
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Further Reading:
Economic Policy Papers
OECD Economics Department Working Papers
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