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progress . The Bretton Woods Institutions (World Bank, IMF, GATT) were based on a post World War II model . They encouraged one … national donations based on taxes, a model that no longer works well . At the same time the globalization of the world economy …
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Many of the present difficulties of the world economy have been blamed on the two oil-price explosions of the 1970s …
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-run future, and specify trade-offs between them. It examines other welfare criteria which are generally utilized: discounted …
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This chapter focuses on how the lack of property rights in North-South trade of primary resources can distort trade and … threaten the sustainablility of development. This issue is examined within a two-region world economy where one region, the … management of the world's natural resources. There are two significant departures from traditional theory. The first is that one …
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works in distributing the gains from trade. It is argued that the international market does not always provide an adequate …-South trade that has been econometrically tested for the trade between Sri Lanka and the UK. The appendix also includes a computer … program for simulating the model and sample computer runs that reproduce, in practical terms, the model trade policies …
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vogue after World War II. The theory of comparative advantages of trade, which recommends that developing countries … economic growth with much less environmental degradation. Such an approach should be promoted throughout the world trading …
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We consider here optimal use patterns for renewable resources and address the problem of optimal use of renewable resources under a variety of assumptions both about the nature of the economy in which these resources are embedded and about the objective of that economy. Although we focus here on...
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studying the relationship between international terms of trade and domestic income distributions of the exporting countries … the situation of the underdeveloped world today. I shall discuss the implications of these results about the question of … the transmission of the growth from the North to the South through international markets, both through trade and through …
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Oil price behavior has changed dramatically in the last twenty years. These changes can be explained rather simply in terms of the delayed responses of supply and demand to prices, and in terms of changes in the rate of discovery of reserves. This analysis can be used to forecast possible future...
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developing economy, improvements in productivity generally lead to higher agricultural prices, i.e. to better terms of trade … explain the effects of trade and investment policies on domestic output and welfare. Simulations of the model are reported …
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