Trade policy of developing countries and emerging economies in the course of globalization

Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations language: English abstract: The current global economy is characterized by extensive globalization of the markets. The accompanying international trade affects industrial nations and developing countries in differing degrees. The analysis of trade policy in developing countries can in the process be analyzed using the same tools as those for developed countries namely industrial na-tions. Earlier development stages of trade policy amongst developing countries were character-ized by protectionism and an orientation towards a domestic market which consequently led to a weak internationalization of these countries. It was not possible to decrease the distance between the classical industrial states since the industrial states themselves in the context of the first phase of globalization were able to significantly advance on a global scale.As a result of the rejection of protectionism by means of changing political structures and the accompanying liberalization it was therefore possible in the early phases of globaliza-tion whose origins lie in the end of the 19th and the start of the 20th century for several developing countries to successfully advance in the wake of the general dynamic of inter-nationalization. The share in the world good's market; the volumes in direct investments and the inflows of portfolio capital were able to increase amongst these groups of countries albeit not for all countries to the same extent. As a result the majority of developing countries today are tightly embedded in world trade. Moreover these countries were capable of registering export quotas of 20% and 30%. The gap between the so-called OECD countries could be largely made up for. In the course of early globalization the OECD countries also dynamically developed with the consequence that many developing countries were in turn able to benefit from these global ec