Worlds apart : the North-South divide and the international system /
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London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. :
Zed Books,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Development Gap in Historical Perspective
- Historical antecedents
- Origins and spread of modern economic growth
- A world divided: the income and development gap at the start of the post-war era
- The post-war experiences: a statistical analysis
- On interpreting the post-war experience: falling behind or catching up?
- 2. Establishing the Post-war World Economic Order
- Planning the post-war international economy
- The birth of the Bretton Woods institutions
- Changed perception of the role of the Fund and the Bank in the immediate post-war period
- The American influence and the evolution of the Fund's policy on access to its resources
- The reality of the Fund in practice
- The World Bank
- Institutional arrangements for trade co-operation
- The role foreseen for the United Nations
- Concluding comments
- 3. Post-war Decolonization and the Rise of the Development Issue
- The realignment of geopolitical forces in the aftermath of the war
- Background to post-war decolonization
- Early collapse of the colonial regimes in Asia
- Decolonization in Africa: late start followed by a great crescendo
- The newly independent states make their impact
- The question of development finance
- Promoting private investment and the birth of the IFC
- Proposals for action on commodity prices and the terms of trade
- The main issues of the 1950s: some noteworthy features
- 4. Confrontation and Dialogue: The 1960s
- Responding to the Soviet challenge
- The dilution of the US leadership role
- Prelude to dialogue
- The UN Conference on Trade and Development
- The institutional issue takes centre stage
- The implications of the Conference in the longer term
- The new institutional machinery gets to work
- Policies and developments elsewhere
- Some concluding observations
- 5. The Decade of the Oil Weapon, of False Hopes and Missed Opportunities
- The end of the Bretton Woods system
- OPEC and the oil shock
- The commodity price boom and the bogey of raw materials shortage
- Learning from OPEC
- Demands for a new international economic order
- Implementing the NIEO
- UNCTAD IV: the climax of the confrontation
- The follow-up on implementing NIEO demands
- A summing up
- 6. The Counter-revolution of the 1980s: the Age of the Radical Right
- Background to the economic revolution
- The ultra-conservatives take over
- The debt build-up and the balance-of-payments squeeze
- The IMF, the debt strategy and the debt trap
- A new role for the IMF
- An aside on devaluation as a tool of policy
- Beyond conditionality: the politics of the debt strategy
- 7. Reversal of the Tide and the South in Retreat
- The Cancun Summit
- UNCTAD under attack
- A crisis on voting
- Standstill at Belgrade
- Redefining UNCTAD's role
- The new UNCTAD takes shape
- Least developed countries: a special case
- Reappraisal and roll-back in the field of trade
- Developing countries and the Uruguay Round
- Environment and development: a new issue raises its head
- Shifting the environmental burden to the South
- On the meaning of sustainable development
- The drug issue: another example
- 8. What Future for the Developing World?
- Failed bid to improve the international policy framework
- Domestic policies: the other dimension
- Transforming the terms of reference of the policy debate
- The new policy direction: is this the way to the Promised Land?
- Changes in the pattern of world economic growth: some relevant aspects
- Adapting to underlying structural changes
- Attracting direct foreign investment
- Living with the growing power of the TNCs
- Reviving North-South dialogue?
- Where do we go from here?
- The ball now firmly in the hands of the North.