1st Edition

How Developing Countries Trade The Institutional Constraints

By Sheila Page Copyright 1995
    326 Pages
    by Routledge

    Over the last fifteen years there have been dramatic increases in both private and public intervention in international trade. Traditional barriers to market-based trade such as commodity cartels and tariffs have been augmented by new developments such as the rise of regional trade blocs and the growth of intra-firm trade. This book argues that these changes are large and persistent enough to have an impact on total development performance, and on the performance of individual countries and individual sectors. It illustrates this with a wealth of theoretical arguments, empirical evidence and country studies.

    List of tables, Acknowledgements, 1 THE RISK OF DISTORTED DEVELOPMENT: TRADE, INDUSTRIALISATION AND OTHER COUNTRIES’ POLICIES, 2 TARIFFS AND PREFERENCES: TRADITIONAL DIVERSIONS Tariffs, 3 NON-TARIFF BARRIERS: INTENTIONAL DIVERSION, 4 COUNTERTRADE: AN AMUSING DIVERSION, 5 OTHER OFFICIAL CONTROLS AFFECTING DEVELOPING COUNTRY TRADE, 6 FOREIGN INVESTMENT: CREATING AND 7 THE WORLD TRADING SYSTEM VIEWED FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, 8 MALAYSIA, 9 THAILAND, 10 COLOMBIA, 11 ZIMBABWE, 12 MAURITIUS, 13 JAMAICA, 14 BANGLADESH, 15 DEVELOPMENT UNDER A CONSTRAINED TRADING SYSTEM, General bibliography, Country bibliography, Index

    Biography

    Sheila Page