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The Resource International trade and economic development, Rajat Acharyya and Saibal Kar

International trade and economic development, Rajat Acharyya and Saibal Kar

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International trade and economic development
Title
International trade and economic development
Statement of responsibility
Rajat Acharyya and Saibal Kar
Creator
Contributor
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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Acharyya, Rajat
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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Kar, Saibal
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  • International trade
  • Economic development
  • International trade
  • Economic development
Label
International trade and economic development, Rajat Acharyya and Saibal Kar
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent.
  • rdacontent.
Contents
  • 1.International Trade and Development Paradigms -- 1.1.Mercantilist Theory of Trade and Development -- 1.2.Classical Political Economists on Trade and Growth -- 1.3.The Post-World War II Debate: Free Trade vs. Trade Protection -- 1.4.Export Pessimism and Legacy of Inward-Looking Development Strategy -- 1.5.Development Crises and Globalization as a Universal Development Strategy -- 1.5.1.The Beginning of the Crisis -- 1.5.2.Combating the Crisis in Europe -- 1.5.3.What is in Store for Developing Countries? -- 1.6.International Trade, Pollution, and Sustainable Development -- 2.Problems of Trade in Primary Commodities -- 2.1.Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis of Unequal Distribution of Gains -- 2.2.Critique of Secular Deterioration of TOT -- 2.3.Unequal Exchanges -- Appendix: Proof -- 3.Terms of Trade and Growth -- 3.1.Trade, Factor Mobility, and Immiserizing Growth -- 3.2.Structuralist Theories: Foreign Exchange, Savings, and Growth --
  • Contents note continued: 3.3.North-South Trade, TOT, and Growth -- 3.3.1.Lewis-Nurkse Growth Process and Economic Dependence -- 3.3.2.Long Run TOT and Growth -- 3.4.Country Experiences -- Appendix: Fundamental Theorems and Proofs -- 4.Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Firms -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Targeting Sectors for Foreign Capital Inflow and Welfare Implications -- 4.2.1.FDI in Retail -- 4.3.Foreign Capital and Skill Formation -- 4.3.1.The Model -- 4.3.2.Changes in Policy -- 4.4.Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1 Proof of Tariff Reduction and Skill Formation -- Appendix 2 Proof of Interest Rate Rise and Skill Formation -- Appendix 3 Proof of Export Price Rise and Skill Formation -- Appendix 4 Proof of Currency Devaluation and Skill Formation -- 5.International Labour Mobility and Welfare -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Overview -- 5.2.1.Host Country Problem -- 5.3.Various Effects of Migration: Source and Destination Interactions --
  • Contents note continued: 5.3.1.Immigration and Skill Formation -- 5.4.A Model and the Results -- 5.4.1.Effects of Trade Liberalization -- 5.4.2.A Terms-of-Trade Improvement or an Interest Cut on Foreign Capital -- 5.5.Conclusion -- Appendix: Algebraic Proofs and Graphical Analyses -- 6.Information, Labour Migration, and Occupation -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Asymmetric Information and the Decision to Migrate -- 6.3.Asymmetric Information in the Labour Market -- 6.3.1.An Example -- 6.4.Concluding Remarks -- 7.Trade, Foreign Aid, and Welfare -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.The Analytical Dimensions of Foreign Aid -- 7.2.1.Types of Foreign Aid -- 7.2.2.Macroeconomic and Generalized Implications of Foreign Aid -- 7.3.Foreign Aid, Governance, and Policy -- 7.4.Concluding Remarks -- 8.Trade, Poverty, and Readjustments -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.1.1.How Does Trade Affect the Poor? -- 8.2.Trade, Informal Sector, and Poverty -- 8.2.1.Modelling the Informal Sector --
  • Contents note continued: 8.3.The Political Economy of Trade Policy -- 8.3.1.Trade and Readjustments -- 8.3.2.Wage Subsidy -- 8.3.3.Group-specific Welfare -- 8.4.Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1 The Relation between Trade and Informal Wages -- Appendix 2 Trade Adjustment Assistance and Welfare -- 9.Regional Trading Arrangements as Development Strategy -- 9.1.Types of RTAs -- 9.2.Causes and Consequences of RTAs -- 9.2.1.Static Welfare Gains and Old Regionalism -- 9.2.2.Causes of Contemporary Regionalism -- 9.2.3.Dynamic Gains and Formation of Regional Trade Blocs -- 9.3.Regionalism and Multilateralism -- 10.TRIPS, Product Standards, and the Developing Economies -- 10.1.TRIPS -- 10.1.1.Parallel Imports, Innovation, and Welfare -- 10.1.2.TRIPS, Parallel Imports, and Market Access to New Drugs -- 10.1.3.TRIPS, Innovation, and Growth -- 10.2.Environmental Standards -- 10.2.1.Unfair Trade and Ecological Dumping -- 10.2.2.Trade, Growth, and Pollution --
  • Contents note continued: 10.2.3.Environmental Regulation as a Non-Tariff Barrier -- 10.2.4.Capital Flight and Pollution Haven -- 10.3.Labour Standards, Trade Sanctions, and Child Labour -- 10.3.1.Trade sanctions, boycotts, and perverse effects on the incidence of child labour -- 10.3.2.Product Labelling and Child-Labour Content Tariff -- 11.International Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Industrialization Strategies -- 11.1.Concepts, Measurement, and Magnitude of Outsourcing and Offshoring -- 11.2.Costs and Benefits of Offshoring and International Outsourcing -- 11.3.Export Processing Zones (EPZs) as a Development Strategy -- 11.4.EPZs and Welfare in Developing Countries -- 12.Contagion of Crisis and Concluding Remarks -- 12.1.Introduction -- 12.2.Analytical Categories of Currency Crisis -- 12.2.1.Trade Links of Contagion -- 12.2.2.The East Asian Crisis -- 12.3.Concluding Remarks
Control code
FIEb17587748
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xvi, 316 pages
Isbn
9780199672851
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)898113531
Label
International trade and economic development, Rajat Acharyya and Saibal Kar
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent.
  • rdacontent.
Contents
  • 1.International Trade and Development Paradigms -- 1.1.Mercantilist Theory of Trade and Development -- 1.2.Classical Political Economists on Trade and Growth -- 1.3.The Post-World War II Debate: Free Trade vs. Trade Protection -- 1.4.Export Pessimism and Legacy of Inward-Looking Development Strategy -- 1.5.Development Crises and Globalization as a Universal Development Strategy -- 1.5.1.The Beginning of the Crisis -- 1.5.2.Combating the Crisis in Europe -- 1.5.3.What is in Store for Developing Countries? -- 1.6.International Trade, Pollution, and Sustainable Development -- 2.Problems of Trade in Primary Commodities -- 2.1.Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis of Unequal Distribution of Gains -- 2.2.Critique of Secular Deterioration of TOT -- 2.3.Unequal Exchanges -- Appendix: Proof -- 3.Terms of Trade and Growth -- 3.1.Trade, Factor Mobility, and Immiserizing Growth -- 3.2.Structuralist Theories: Foreign Exchange, Savings, and Growth --
  • Contents note continued: 3.3.North-South Trade, TOT, and Growth -- 3.3.1.Lewis-Nurkse Growth Process and Economic Dependence -- 3.3.2.Long Run TOT and Growth -- 3.4.Country Experiences -- Appendix: Fundamental Theorems and Proofs -- 4.Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Firms -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Targeting Sectors for Foreign Capital Inflow and Welfare Implications -- 4.2.1.FDI in Retail -- 4.3.Foreign Capital and Skill Formation -- 4.3.1.The Model -- 4.3.2.Changes in Policy -- 4.4.Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1 Proof of Tariff Reduction and Skill Formation -- Appendix 2 Proof of Interest Rate Rise and Skill Formation -- Appendix 3 Proof of Export Price Rise and Skill Formation -- Appendix 4 Proof of Currency Devaluation and Skill Formation -- 5.International Labour Mobility and Welfare -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Overview -- 5.2.1.Host Country Problem -- 5.3.Various Effects of Migration: Source and Destination Interactions --
  • Contents note continued: 5.3.1.Immigration and Skill Formation -- 5.4.A Model and the Results -- 5.4.1.Effects of Trade Liberalization -- 5.4.2.A Terms-of-Trade Improvement or an Interest Cut on Foreign Capital -- 5.5.Conclusion -- Appendix: Algebraic Proofs and Graphical Analyses -- 6.Information, Labour Migration, and Occupation -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Asymmetric Information and the Decision to Migrate -- 6.3.Asymmetric Information in the Labour Market -- 6.3.1.An Example -- 6.4.Concluding Remarks -- 7.Trade, Foreign Aid, and Welfare -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.The Analytical Dimensions of Foreign Aid -- 7.2.1.Types of Foreign Aid -- 7.2.2.Macroeconomic and Generalized Implications of Foreign Aid -- 7.3.Foreign Aid, Governance, and Policy -- 7.4.Concluding Remarks -- 8.Trade, Poverty, and Readjustments -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.1.1.How Does Trade Affect the Poor? -- 8.2.Trade, Informal Sector, and Poverty -- 8.2.1.Modelling the Informal Sector --
  • Contents note continued: 8.3.The Political Economy of Trade Policy -- 8.3.1.Trade and Readjustments -- 8.3.2.Wage Subsidy -- 8.3.3.Group-specific Welfare -- 8.4.Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1 The Relation between Trade and Informal Wages -- Appendix 2 Trade Adjustment Assistance and Welfare -- 9.Regional Trading Arrangements as Development Strategy -- 9.1.Types of RTAs -- 9.2.Causes and Consequences of RTAs -- 9.2.1.Static Welfare Gains and Old Regionalism -- 9.2.2.Causes of Contemporary Regionalism -- 9.2.3.Dynamic Gains and Formation of Regional Trade Blocs -- 9.3.Regionalism and Multilateralism -- 10.TRIPS, Product Standards, and the Developing Economies -- 10.1.TRIPS -- 10.1.1.Parallel Imports, Innovation, and Welfare -- 10.1.2.TRIPS, Parallel Imports, and Market Access to New Drugs -- 10.1.3.TRIPS, Innovation, and Growth -- 10.2.Environmental Standards -- 10.2.1.Unfair Trade and Ecological Dumping -- 10.2.2.Trade, Growth, and Pollution --
  • Contents note continued: 10.2.3.Environmental Regulation as a Non-Tariff Barrier -- 10.2.4.Capital Flight and Pollution Haven -- 10.3.Labour Standards, Trade Sanctions, and Child Labour -- 10.3.1.Trade sanctions, boycotts, and perverse effects on the incidence of child labour -- 10.3.2.Product Labelling and Child-Labour Content Tariff -- 11.International Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Industrialization Strategies -- 11.1.Concepts, Measurement, and Magnitude of Outsourcing and Offshoring -- 11.2.Costs and Benefits of Offshoring and International Outsourcing -- 11.3.Export Processing Zones (EPZs) as a Development Strategy -- 11.4.EPZs and Welfare in Developing Countries -- 12.Contagion of Crisis and Concluding Remarks -- 12.1.Introduction -- 12.2.Analytical Categories of Currency Crisis -- 12.2.1.Trade Links of Contagion -- 12.2.2.The East Asian Crisis -- 12.3.Concluding Remarks
Control code
FIEb17587748
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xvi, 316 pages
Isbn
9780199672851
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)898113531

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