By Jørgen Dige Pedersen
In its comparability of 2 significant rising international locations, India and Brazil, this e-book ways the topic via an leading edge theoretical mixture of developmental states theory and theories of the altering nature of worldwide capitalism.
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346–8) noted how stagnation of the world economy, rising protectionism in developed country market and the microelectronic revolution have combined to make an export-oriented development path difficult to pursue for developing countries. Peter Evans claimed that what he calls ‘the new internationalization’, would permanently undermine key features of the ‘embedded autonomy’ mechanisms that lay behind the success of developmental states: the possibilities for autonomous state action and the alliance between local capital and the state (Evans 1995, pp.
One of the important changes from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to the WTO justifying the notion of paradigmatic shift was the considerable broadening of the agenda for trade negotiations. The institutionalization of international economic negotiations represented by the WTO today includes to a significant degree issues relevant for knowledge-intensive productive activities, services and financial activities, thus clearly complementing the shift in domestic production activities towards a more knowledgeintensive form of techno-economic paradigm regime based upon increased use of mental labour.
225). 6 Evans strongly emphasized that bureaucracy understood in a Weberian sense as a professional, rational, well-ordered administrative structure of the state was a fundamental prerequisite for the construction of the right kind of embeddedness with private business based on a joint project of economic transformation. In short, this amounted to a notion of ‘no bureaucracy, no development’, but he also noticed the importance of informal, network-like connections within the bureaucracy (Evans 1995, p.