WASHINGTON: US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and top International Monetary Fund (IMF) policy-maker Anne Krueger, fearing that decades of trade liberalisation are being reversed, have sounded stern warnings against signs of creeping protectionism.
Their biggest concern is that governments are succumbing to short-term domestic political pressures over job losses and overlooking the biggest benefit of trade – long-term economic growth.
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