Comprehensively explores the complex relationships between trade and economic performance in developing countries, illustrating that it is not trade per se that is important but the context, at the firm, country and regional level, in which trade occurs

While some argue that trade liberalization has raised incomes and led to environmental protection in developing countries, others claim that it generates neither poverty reduction nor sustainability. The detailed case studies in this book demonstrate that neither interpretation is universally...

BS Chimni, Developing countries and the GATT/WTO system : some reflections on the idea of free trade and the Doha round trade negotiations -- Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Dysfunction, diversion, and the debate over preferences : (how) do preferential trade policies work? -- J. Michael Finger, Trade and...

Alfred Maizels' work on commodity trade and prices documented trends in a major area of international economic relations. This title elaborates the ideas in the tradition of Maizels' contributions, and discusses and extends these theories in relation to current problems