Trade Liberalisation and Economic Performance

This paper, together with four other country case studies, is a part of a broader researchprogramme addressing trade and structural adjustment issues in non-member economies which wasconducted as a follow-up to Trade and Structural Adjustment: Embracing Globalisation (OECD, 2005)which identified policies for successful trade-related structural adjustment. This paper studies the tradeliberalisation and structural adjustment experiences and their outcomes in terms of economic and tradeperformance in East Asia and Latin America.The report consists of 5 main sections After an introduction, Section A first looks at the growthperformance and role of trade and FDI. Section B looks at trade related policy trends in the two regionswhile section C looks at some trade and foreign direct investment indicators. Section D compares thestructural adjustment in the two regions and Section E concludes.

OECD Trade Policy Papers

Trade Liberalisation and Economic Performance

Latin America versus East Asia 1970-2006