Trade and Poor Economies

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
1. THREE TYPES OF THEORY AND POLICY......Page 6
2. THE STORY OF MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL TRADE......Page 7
3. THE STORY OF STRUCTURALLY BIASED GAINS FROM TRADE......Page 9
4. THE STORY OF TRADE-INDUCED GLOBAL POLARITY......Page 12
5. RESEARCH RELEVANT TO POOR COUNTRIES’ TRADE PROBLEMS......Page 15
REFERENCES......Page 19
Vent for Surplus Reconsidered with Ghanaian Evidence......Page 22
THE GHANA CASE......Page 24
1. Work Inputs to Cocoa......Page 25
2. The motivation for engaging in cocoa production......Page 29
3. THE GROWTH MECHANISM......Page 30
4. Linkages Associated with Export-Led Growth......Page 33
CONCLUSION......Page 34
NOTES......Page 37
REFERENCES......Page 38
I INTRODUCTION......Page 40
II  STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN NIGERIA DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD......Page 41
(a) Precolonial Economic Structures......Page 42
(b) The Abolition of Slavery within West Africa......Page 45
(c) Activities of the Colonial State......Page 46
III STANDARD ECONOMIC ANALYSES OF COLONIAL ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION—A CRITIQUE......Page 52
NOTES......Page 57
REFERENCES......Page 59
INTRODUCTION......Page 62
I GINI-HIRSCHMAN COEFFICIENTS AND REGRESSION ANALYSIS......Page 63
II CONCENTRATION AND INSTABILITY......Page 65
IV RESULTS......Page 67
NOTES......Page 70
REFERENCES......Page 71
Structural Aspects of Third World Trade: Some Trends and Some Prospects......Page 72
I INTRAFIRM TRADE AND THE THIRD WORLD......Page 74
Primary Products Trade......Page 76
Manufactured Goods Trade......Page 78
(i) The ‘New Protectionism’ and the Third World......Page 80
(ii) Restrictive Business Practices as ‘Private NTBs’......Page 84
(iii) OECD Adjustment to Changes in the Structure of Trade......Page 85
CONCLUSION......Page 86
NOTES......Page 87
REFERENCES......Page 88
I INTRODUCTION......Page 90
II MANUFACTURED EXPORTS AND MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN MEXICO......Page 93
III THE PROPENSITY TO EXPORT OF FOREIGN SUBSIDIARIES......Page 94
IV THE DESTINATION OF EXPORTS......Page 99
V IMPORT INTENSITY......Page 103
VI CONCLUSION......Page 104
REFERENCES......Page 105
Oligopolistic Tactics to Control Markets and the Growth of TNCs in Brazil’s Electrical Industry......Page 108
INTERLOCKING DIRECTORSHIPS......Page 109
The Competitive Effects of Electrical Industry Interlocks......Page 110
FORBEARANCE AND SPHERES OF INFLUENCE......Page 115
CONTROL OF SUPPLIES......Page 118
CROSS-SUBSIDISATION......Page 119
Cross-subsidisation in Capital Goods—the Brown Boveri Case......Page 122
Background......Page 125
‘Special Agreement Brazil’......Page 126
A Digression: Some Implication for Market Structure and Industrial Performance......Page 128
Other Examples of Collusive Behaviour......Page 129
POLITICAL RELATIONS AND TNCs......Page 131
ACQUISITIONS......Page 132
NOTES......Page 134
REFERENCES......Page 137
INTRODUCTION......Page 140
THE MODEL......Page 142
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS......Page 145
CONCLUSIONS......Page 151
NOTES......Page 152
REFERENCES......Page 153
THE WORLD JUTE MARKET......Page 156
Competition from Synthetics......Page 157
THE PROSPECT FOR A JUTE BUFFER STOCK......Page 158
Historical Analysis......Page 160
Projections Analysis......Page 164
Conclusions......Page 166
REFERENCES......Page 167