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Developing Countries & World Trade Performance & Prospects
Author: Yilmaz Akyuz
ISBN: 9781842774113
Binding: Paper Back
Publishing Year: 2003
Publisher: Zed Books
Number of Pages: 192
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INR 420.00
About Book
Increased participation in world trade is conventionally seen as the key to economic growth and development. Yet, as this book shows through its detailed examination of contemporary world trade patterns, while developing country exports have grown faster than the world average, the rich countries have meanwhile increased their share in world manufacturing valued added. This poses the vitally important policy challenge of what poor countries, confronted by the vigorous expansion of their foreign trade but no comparable rise in income, should do. Primary commodity prices have collapsed in value, and there is a real danger that the terms of trade for their exports of manufactured goods may do the same. The key challenge confronting poor countries today is not more trade liberalization on their part, but how to improve the terms of their participation in world trade and to increase the still limited and unstable benefits they derive from it.
About Author
Dr Yilmaz Akyuz is chief economist with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), responsible for preparing UNCTAD's annual Trade and Development Report. He was previously professor of economics at the University of East Anglia and at Webster University in Geneva. He is the author of Reforming the Global Financial Architecture (Zed Books, 2002)
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