The increasing cross-border flows of information, trade, capital and technology have profoundly changed the macroeconomic fabric of nations. In the emergent borderless world macroeconomic theories and policy-making confront new challenges. This paper identifies and evaluates some of these...

In recent years much attention has been given to the subject of delinking of developing countries from the world economy. John H. Adler gives an account of the arguments for delinking which is followed by an evaluation of these arguments and a discussion of the policy implications for industrial...

The fact that increasing importance is being attached to foreign trade under the new Chinese leadership must not be mistaken for automatic expansion of the importation of foreign goods. Foreign trade will, as before, have only a complementary function in the economic development of China. For...

A world government does not seem to be indispensable for a world economic policy. The work of international agencies, as inter alia IMF, GATT, ILO, WHO, UN Economic and Social Council and World Bank, proves the contrary. Global tasks can in many instances be tackled through treaties and...

At Nairobi, during this year's annual conference of the International Monetary Fund, the Fund's President, Mr Robert S. McNamara, called upon the LDCs to treat a more equitable distribution of personal incomes as a priority aim. However, the LDCs' machinery for making policy decisions makes it...