Commoditiеs in Crisis: Thе Commodity Crisis of thе 1980s аnd thе Politicаl Economy of Intеrnаtionаl Commodity Policiеs (W I D E R Studiеs in Dеvеlopmеnt Economics)
Publisher: Οxford Univеrsity Prеss, USΑ
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1992-05-21
List price: $69.00
With the dramatic changes in the global political scene, many developing countries are re-evaluating their economic and political priorities. This reappraisal scrutinizes their dependence on specific commodities and the crisis into which this market has been thrown in the last decade. This work relates the main theoretical and empirical issues in the collapse in commodity prices since 1980--a major cause of the Third World economic crises--to perceived conflicts of interest between developed and developing countries. Maizels continues his study by discussing the elements of a new approach to a...