Both the process of formation of the Single European Market, which implies major economic and legal changes in Europe, and the results, which imply greater efficiency and growth, affect the Community's trading partners. Initial calculations have suggested that, in aggregate, the benefits for the...

Page argues that the increased public and private intervention in international trade over the last fifteen years has been large and persistent enough to impact on total development performance and on individual countries and sectors

Primary commodity prices and markets behave differently from those of manufactures or most services. Prices have fallen over time, so countries and producers dependent on them find that their income does not keep pace with the costs of imports or the costs of production. The fluctuations in...