The World Economic Order: Past and Prospects

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Rate of Growth of World Trade, 1830–1973....Pages 11-81
The Changing Composition of Developing Country Exports....Pages 82-120
Income Levels and the Structure of Trade....Pages 121-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
The Technology Transfer Issue....Pages 167-197
Technology and International Trade: a Heckscher—Ohlin Approach....Pages 198-232
The Less-Developed Countries and Transnational Enterprises....Pages 233-261
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Problems of Adjustment to Imports from Less-Developed Countries....Pages 265-294
Short-term Policy Trade-offs under Different Phases of Economic Development....Pages 295-318
East, West, and South: the Role of the Centrally Planned Economies in the International Economy....Pages 319-361
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Financial Repression and the Liberalisation Problem within Less-Developed Countries....Pages 365-390
Exchange Rate Policy for Developing Countries....Pages 391-422
Front Matter....Pages 423-423
The Fundamental Determinants of the Terms of Trade....Pages 425-463
Ethical Issues in Income Distribution: National and International....Pages 464-497
Front Matter....Pages 499-499
Need for Reforms in Underdeveloped Countries....Pages 501-533
Some Thoughts of Self-reliant Development, Collective Self-reliance and the New International Economic Order....Pages 534-557
Mutual Interests and the Implications for Reform of the International Economic Order....Pages 558-586
Back Matter....Pages 587-599