I would like to thank Caroline Mehigan and Micheal O’Keeffe for their contribution to my remarks. 2. For the seminal piece see Autor et al (2013) 3. For an overview see for example: http://www.oecd.org/trade/understanding-the-global-trading-system/why-open-marketsmatter/ 4. Note that Ireland had a very free trade policy position from independence in 1921 until 1932 when protectionist policies were introduced in line with the practice elsewhere. 5.
While the Club is able to produce an acceptable extent of comparable concessions by official creditors operating within its framework, it has increasingly had to deal with the issues arising from the growing  1  2  In addition, liquidity is likely to be important for a country without market access  BIS Review 57/2006  role of the private sector in financing developing countries, and those that result from the growing importance of official creditors who are not members, prominent among them China.