Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.When and How International Institutions Promote Economic Reform -- 3.Preferential Trading Agreements as Helpful International Institutions -- 4.Design of Preferential Trading Agreements -- 5.Formation of Preferential Trading Agreements -- 6.Economic Reform and Preferential Trading Agreements -- 7.Explaining Economic Reform in Croatia and South Africa -- 8.Agreements and Reforms Without Democratization: Chile and Colombia -- 9.Conclusion.
Summary
During the past two decades, governments across the developing world have implemented many liberal economic reforms. 'Cutting the Gordian Knot of Economic Reform' shows that international institutions - formal agreements that govern policy formation in member states - made possible some of the most important reforms in developing countries.