This paper examines, with the help of the available literature on North-South models, the paradoxical economic performances within Latin America and the role of China's phenomenal recent growth in it, which turn the Prebisch-Singer thesis upside down: the terms of trade are moving in favor of...

The Millennium Round of MTNs, which was stillborn in Seattle, was supposed to have initiated wide-sweeping changes to the world's trading system. This paper deals with the impact on the German economy of some changes that might have been forthcoming from proposed liberalization strategies. It...