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Liberalization and Globalization are feared by the developing countries, as the Trojan Horses of the developed countries. Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2000
  • Evolution of the International Economic System

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A Trojan Horse is a gift that conceals an invasion. The metaphor captures a fear voiced across the developing world in the 1990s: that liberalisation and globalisation, offered as positive-sum integration, carry inside them instruments that open Southern economies to Northern capital while closing the routes by which the North itself industrialised. The fear is…

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  • The gift and what it concealed
  • The Indian experience
  • Why the fear is only half the truth
  • Conclusion
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