The Economic North–South Divide: Six Decades of Unequal Development

ISBN-13: 9781843760887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str.

H. W. Singer;Kunibert Raffer

Opis

Since the 1940s, development thinking has been the subject of fierce debate and continual evolution. This title traces the ideas that have driven changing approaches to development, focusing also on the Prebisch-Singer thesis, which seeks to explain the widening gaps between rich and poor nations, caused by unequal distribution of trade benefits. Th ey discuss both aid during and after the Cold War, and the rise and subsequent liberalization crisis of the Asian tiger economies. The book goes on to explore the structural roots of the debt crisis and considers the impact of debt management on North-South economic relations, exposing certain double standards that tilt global markets further against the South. Encouraged successful opposition to neoliberalism, it finally proposes ideas for a world where people seem to matter.