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According to this author, international actors have pushed developing countries to remove their discriminatory trade policies in the name of speeding up development. By examining the trade-related industrial policies used by Indonesia from the mid-1980s to the present, this paper unearths evidence that developing countries are finding ingenious methods of challenging and circumventing some of these policy restrictions. This suggests, the author argues, that developing countries have more policy space for development than is commonly thought. He concludes by discussing the implications of these findings as well as offering avenues for future research.