Im ersten Band werden die Grundlagen gelegt. Es wird gefragt, was unter Entwicklung zu verstehen ist, wie man Entwicklung definieren kann. Die geschichtlichen Erfahrungen der Industriestaaten werden aufgearbeitet, die theoretischen Grundlagen gelegt, wobei auch ein dogmengeschichtlicher...

Gary Gereffi first explains how foreign corporations took over the flourishing Mexican steroid industry in the 1950s and 1960s and thwarted the country's later attempts to establish a more equitable distribution of industry benefits. In this valuable theoretical contribution Professor Gereffi...

Though political and trade matters have generally received the greatest attention in ASEAN related discussions, cooperation in ASEAN banking and financial matters is increasingly cited as a major goal. A variety of regional effeorts having been made at both government and private sector levels,...

Negotiations on an international commodity policy have been the central issue on the North-South agenda for the past three years. They also can be seen as the first major effort to give substantive meaning to the Third World's desire not only for a new regime for the world's raw commodity trade...

Nations undergoing rapid economic growth require new institutions-both formal organizations and informal modes of interpersonal behavior. John Powelson develops a theory of institution-building to explain how nations choose such institutions, what kinds they prefer and why, and in what ways the...

In Europe after World War II, U.S. economic aid helped to ensure economic revival, political stability, and democracy. In the Third World, however, aid has been associated with very different tendencies: uneven political development, violence, political instability, and authoritarian rule in...

This book deals with specific problems in Colombia as a means of exploring interrelated theoretical themes in the development process. Demographic and political as well as specifically economic variables arc given consideration in the authors' analysis of the constraints on the growth of...

A very commonly observed phenomenon in developing and emerging market economies is the use of another country’s currency (US dollar or other) in lieu or in addition to the local currency. Governments in these countries have been encouraging dollariz