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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791927803321

Autore

MacBean Alasdair I

Titolo

Export instability and economic development / / Alasdair I. MacBean ; foreword by Professor Edward Mason

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon, : Routledge, 2011

ISBN

1-136-87766-5

1-283-53879-2

9786613851246

1-136-87767-3

0-203-83844-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions: development ; ; 45

Disciplina

382.6091724

382.609678

382/.6/09678

Soggetti

Commodity control

Economic development

Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

EXPORT INSTABILITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; COPYRIGHT; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; CONTENTS; TABLES; CHARTS; PART I CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES; CHAPTER 1 THE PRIMA FACIE CASE; CHAPTER 2 CAUSES OF EXCESSIVE FLUCTUATION IN EXPORT PROCEEDS; CHAPTER 3 THE SHORT-TERM CONSEQUENCES; CHAPTER 4 ECONOMIC GROWTH; PART II FIVE CASES; CHAPTER 5 UGANDA; CHAPTER 6 TANGANYIKA; CHAPTER 7 PUERTO RICO; CHAPTER 8 CHILE; CHAPTER 9 PAKISTAN; PART III NATIONAL POLICIES; CHAPTER 10 NATIONAL STABILIZATION POLICIES; CHAPTER 11 FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICIES; PART IV INTERNATIONAL POLICIES

CHAPTER 12 INTERNATIONAL COMMODITY AGREEMENTSCHAPTER 13 INTERNATIONAL COMPENSATORY FINANCE; CHAPTER 14 THE ROLE OF THE INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES; CHAPTER 15 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS; APPENDIX; WORKS CITED; INDEX



Sommario/riassunto

When this work was first published in 1966, there was much interest in various types of commodity agreements and compensatory financing as methods of reducing the effects of export fluctuations on the economies of developing countries. The book concluded that short term fluctuations in export earnings, though perhaps important for some countries, did not appear to be the general problem that had been assumed. If correct, it would suggest that any measures should be carefully designed to fit the situations of countries that were affected and be subjected to cost-benefit analysis. This led to