Policies for Development: Essays in Honour of Gamani Corea

Policies for Development: Essays in Honour of Gamani Corea

Policies for Development: Essays in Honour of Gamani Corea

Policies for Development: Essays in Honour of Gamani Corea

Paperback(1st ed. 1988)

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Overview

A collection of essays by a number of internationally-known economists, this book is essential reading for those interested in development policy in the Third World. It provides new insights on a number of long-standing controversies about development policy in such fields as external constraints, import substitution, the debt problem, direct foreign investment, counter-trade, IMF conditionality and the impact of currency devalutation.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349094189
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/01/1988
Edition description: 1st ed. 1988
Pages: 254
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors - Part 1 INTERGENERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES - Our Duties to the Future; P.Streeten - PART 2 OVERCOMING THE EXTERNAL CONSTRAINTS - External Constraints and Development Options: The Case of Brazil; I.Sachs - Import Substitution Revisited; H.W.Singer & P.Alizadeh - Developing Country Debts in the Mid-1980s: Facts, Theory and Policy; D.Avramovic - Direct Foreign Investment and Manufacturing for Export; G.K.Helleiner - Do Third World Countries Benefit from Counter-Trade?; F.Stewart & H.Singh - PART 3 BALANCE OF PAYMENT POLICIES AND DEVELOPMENT - Restoring the IMF to its Old Purpose; J.Spraos - The Impact of Currency Devaluation on Commodity Production and Exports of Developing Countries; A.Maizels - PART 4 RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPMENT - The Role of Arms Control; J.Tinbergen - Index
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