1st Edition

Trade and Poor Economies

By John Toye Copyright 1979
172 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1979. Development economists, when they discuss the role played by international trade in a country’s economic development, tend to tell one of three types of story. The first shows how the welfare of both (and by easy extension, all) countries which engage in trade is increased, even when one country is absolutely very rich and the other is absolutely very poor. The second, is... Read more
INTRODUCTION: THREE STORIES ABOUT TRADE AND POOR ECONOMIES, VENT FOR SURPLUS RECONSIDERED WITH GHANAIAN EVIDENCE, COLONIALISM IN ECONOMIC THEORY: THE EXPERIENCE OF NIGERIA, TRADE CONCENTRATION AND EXPORT INSTABILITY, STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF THIRD WORLD TRADE: SOME TRENDS AND SOME PROSPECTS, THE EXPORT PERFORMANCE OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN MEXICAN INDUSTRY, OLIGOPOLISTIC TACTICS TO CONTROL MARKETS AND THE GROWTH OF TNCs IN BRAZIL’S ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY, ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND EXPORT INSTABILITY IN CENTRAL AMERICA: A PORTFOLIO MODEL, SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF AN INTERNATIONAL BUFFER STOCK FOR JUTE

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Edited by Sheila Smith, John Toye