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International Trade and Global Development (Routledge Revivals): Essays in honour of Jagdish Bhagwati book cover

1st Edition

International Trade and Global Development (Routledge Revivals) Essays in honour of Jagdish Bhagwati

By Ad Koekkoek Copyright 1991
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

Fluctuations in the level and pattern of international trade have a profound effect on the economies of less developed countries. This book explores the relationship between international trade and globl development through a series of essays which relate advances in trade theory to key issues in trade policy. The book, first published in 1991, is in honour of Jagdish Bhagwati and reflects the... Read more
Part I Introduction  1. Improvement of the international trade environment in order to stimulate economic growth in developing countries  2. Is free trade passe after all?  Part II Trade, protection and political economy  3. Perspectives on trade and trade policy  4. Strategy wars: the state of debate on trade and industrialization in developing countries  5. Why voluntary export restraints? A historical analysis  6. Quota auctions and adjustment assistance: an international perspective  7. International transactions in services and developing countries  Part III Foreign investment  8. Foreign direct investment and intra-firm trade: evidence from Japan  9. Quid pro quo foreign investment and policy intervention  10. Export promotion, import substitution and direct foreign investment in less developed countries  Part IV International economic co-ordination  11. The obstacles to macro-economic policy co-ordination in the 1990s and an analysis of international nominal targeting  12. Threats to the world trading regime: protectionism, unfair trade et al

Biography

Ad Koekkoek, born in 1949, is Senior Lecturer in International Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Senior Policy Adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. He received his MA degree in economics, cum Laude, in 1971, from Erasmus Univer­sity. He spent two years as a visiting lecturer at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He obtained his PhD in 1989 on the subject of developing countries and the Uruguay Round. He has published on matters of trade structure and trade policy in various journals, such as Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, World Development, World Economy and Journal of World Trade (Law). He is co-editor of a special issue of Journal of Common Market Studies on the effects of '1992' on developing countries (forthcoming, December 1990). Loet B. M. Mennes, is managing director of the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) and Professor of International Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. For many years he was a director of the Netherlands Economic Institute which he left in 1988. He has (co-)authored and (co-)edited books on economic integration, spatial planning, investment planning, European trade policies and project appraisal. He has published articles in journals such as Econometrica, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Journal of International Economics and Journal of World Trade Law.

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