Economic crisis in developing countries : new perspectives on commodities, trade and finance : essays in honour of Alfred Maizels
Alfred Maizels (Other), Machiko Nissanke (Other), Adrian Hewitt (Other)
A scholarly analysis of the issues facing developing countries in a volatile international economic system, proposing strategies for overcoming debt crisis and achieving growth. It puts forward policies for development through trade, overseas aid, industrialization and technological change.
228 s. ; 23 cm
9781855671522, 1855671522
925358177
Part 1 Commodity prices, terms of trade and economic development: the terms of trade and the foreign debt of developing countries, John Spraos; the impact of trends and volatility in terms of trade and on GNP growth, Hans Singer and Jerker Edstrom; stabilization-cum-adjustment over the commodity price cycle, Machiko Nissanke; commodity market instability and compensatory financing, Adrian Hewitt; Part 2 Trade, finance and technology policies for development: trade, trade policy and economic development in very low-income countries, G.K. Helleiner; interdependence of technological change with growth of trade and GNP, Chris Freeman; financial policies for industrialization and development, Yilmax Akyuz; World Bank finance for development in the 1980s, Frances Stewart; the evolution of the doctrine and practice of loan conditionality, Dragoslav Avramovic.