The paper uses a small analytical two-region (the United States and the Rest of the Industrial World) model, to analyze three issues Concerning international economic interdependence and macroeconomic policy coordination that have been raised in connection with the September1985 World Economic...

The paper presents a non-technical survey of some of the issues involved in the design of stabilization policy 10 developng countries with special emphasis on policy responses to external shocks. First, the six imost imortant external economic parameters of developing countries are reviewed; I)...