1st Edition
How Developing Countries Trade The Institutional Constraints
By Sheila Page
Copyright 1995
326 Pages
by
Routledge
Over the last fifteen years there have been dramatic increases in both private and public intervention in international trade. Traditional barriers to market-based trade such as commodity cartels and tariffs have been augmented by new developments such as the rise of regional trade blocs and the growth of intra-firm trade. This book argues that these changes are large and persistent enough to have... Read more
List of tables, Acknowledgements, 1 THE RISK OF DISTORTED DEVELOPMENT: TRADE, INDUSTRIALISATION AND OTHER COUNTRIES’ POLICIES, 2 TARIFFS AND PREFERENCES: TRADITIONAL DIVERSIONS Tariffs, 3 NON-TARIFF BARRIERS: INTENTIONAL DIVERSION, 4 COUNTERTRADE: AN AMUSING DIVERSION, 5 OTHER OFFICIAL CONTROLS AFFECTING DEVELOPING COUNTRY TRADE, 6 FOREIGN INVESTMENT: CREATING AND 7 THE WORLD TRADING SYSTEM VIEWED FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, 8 MALAYSIA, 9 THAILAND, 10 COLOMBIA, 11 ZIMBABWE, 12 MAURITIUS, 13 JAMAICA, 14 BANGLADESH, 15 DEVELOPMENT UNDER A CONSTRAINED TRADING SYSTEM, General bibliography, Country bibliography, Index
Biography
Sheila Page
