Word: protectionist
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...Czech Republic, the three core economies of ex-communist central Europe, have seen economic prosperity and political freedom march together. Indeed, democracy came to central Europe before economic reform did. But that isn't always the case. Consider Mexico. For 15 years, from 1985 to 2000, its protectionist, corrupt economy was progressively opened and cleaned up by governments that had few of the trappings of liberal democracy. In fact, some of the most profound reforms in Mexico were undertaken by an administration - that of Carlos Salinas de Gortari - which very probably stole the 1988 presidential election. It was only after...
...tariff trade barriers. Unfortunately, because nations are on unequal economic footing, it is relatively more expensive for developing nations to protect workers and the environment than it is for the U.S. When the U.S. has attempted to establish these standards, developing nations have perceived them as merely protectionist tactics...
...bureaucrats inside are still recording trade surpluses with the rest of the world, month after month after month. This is the powerful agency--known as MITI, or the Ministry of International Trade and Industry--that two decades ago provoked fear and loathing in Washington because it was masterminding a protectionist and predatory strategy that vaulted Japan to the summit of the world's economies. Or so it was thought. But that era of Japan bashing has been made irrelevant by stuff nobody had heard of then, like portals and dotcoms and e-business software...
...Despite the attacks on free trade, the policy that seemed at greatest risk was a profoundly protectionist one: the E.U.'s Common Agricultural Policy, which has sustained the European farming industry through subsidies and price supports for four decades. The cap was devised at a time when more than a quarter of Europe's workforce was employed in farming. Now that figure is below 6%, yet agriculture still consumes half the E.U. budget...
...this anti-trade policy seen as social justice while the tariffs of Sudan and Nigeria are seen as backward and protectionist...