Beyond trade: ACFTA 3.0 and the new language of global development


WHEN policymakers coined the term “global development”, they did not mean it as a shorthand for more trade deals.

They meant something more architectural, which is a way of arranging the economic connections between countries so that growth is not just faster, but fairer, more resilient and better coordinated.

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