North-South and South-South: Essays on International Economics

ISBN-13: 9780333490884 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 394 str.

Frances Stewart

Opis

'...an important and timely contribution to the study of South-South economic relations. It provides a cogent and detailed analysis...'-Henock Kifle, South Letter '...provides some interesting insights into the determinants and consequences of South-South trade.'- Frances Stewart, The World Economy 'This comprehensive, incisive work....represents both historical depth and topical breadth. ....This well-written analysis makes an important contribution to development studies, including development economics and development geography.'- Georges G. Cravins, The Journal of Asian Studies These essays explore interactions between North and South and South and South in trade, technology and finance, focusing on the interests of the South, and particularly the poor. The 'conventional' neo-classical approach is shown to have many theoretical deficiences, the consequences are often harmful to Southern interests, while the poor are neglected. The author concludes that the South should adopt a bargaining approach to N-S negotiations and urges for closer South-South relations in trade, technology and finance.

Spis treści

SECTION 1: RELATIONS BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH - Introduction and Overview - Alternative Approaches to North-South Negotiations - Basic Needs Strategies, Human Rights and the Right to Development - SECTION 2: TRADE - New Theories of International Trade: Some Implications for the South - A Note on Strategic Trade Theory and the South - Externalities and Trade - The Role of Countertrade - Are Quantitative Restrictions Out of Date?: An Assessment of Article XVIII(b) of GATT - SECTION 3: THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM - Money and South-South Co-operation - A New Currency for Trade Among Developing Countries - The International Debt Situation and North-South Relations - Back to Keynesianism: Reforming the IMF - SECTION 4: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER - Technology Transfer for Development - Technical Change in the North: Some Implications for the South - References - Index

O autorze

Frances Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics, Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE), University of Oxford, UK. Among many publications, she is the co-author of UNICEF s influential study Adjustment with a Human Face and author of Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict . She has directed a number of major research programmes including several financed by the UK Government s Department for International Development and has served as Chair of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy.