China : the dollar value of gross domestic product / Robert Michael Field -- An assessment of the United Nations scale of assessments, 1946-1994 / Lawrence H. Officer -- Van Ijzeren's method of international price and volume comparison : an exposition / Bert M. Balk -- Consistency in aggregation...

This book advances the theory that a potential leading export sector-in this case, the oil sector-is capable of inducing economic growth even in peripheral countries where the product line is primary in nature. In Venezuela the oil sector has contributed directly and indirectly to the...