to describe the nonmarginal changes that would need to occur these economists used metaphors like the snowball lewis the big push rosensteinrodan dynamic linkages hirschman and the takeoff rostow different views existed on how best to induce the necessary change but the dominant one was that the developmental state should be the prime mover in for example developing countries were granted special treatment in the gatt allowing them to protect particular industries and introduce quantitative restrictions so as to address balanceofpayments difficulties