Provides a unique treatment of world economic geography as a whole and examines the principle philosophies that have shaped our study of it, identifies the importance of the biophysical as well as cultural and political environments

This book looks at firms which have developed export trade in Sub-Saharan economies, and how they have sustained their competitiveness in the face of rapid technological change in the international economy

An invaluable introduction to the region, this book assesses Pacific Asia both in terms of its historical development and the present global system, placing general development issues in their local contexts

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I: Trade and the International Economy -- 1 Boundary-transcending technologies, trade development and the micro-structural activities of firms -- 2 Borders, national industrial structures and...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Idealised models of 'efficient' international exchange -- 2 Aboriginal external trade and the global evolution of inter-state trade relations -- 3 The national political economy of overseas colonial...

The current framework of development cooperation is dominated by the experiences of industrialized countries. But emerging economies have begun to accelerate their own development programmes, and attempts to bring them into existing aid models have been met with caution. This expert volume...

During the first three decades following the Second World War, an increasingly open international trading system led to unprecedented economic growth throughout the world. But in recent years, that openness has been threatened by increased protectionism, regional trading arrangements-Europe 1992...