Issues In International Trade And Development Policy [Hardcover]

The decade of the 1980s has been full of disputes between industrialized countries and newly industrialized ones, between developing countries and Northern markets, and between Japan, the U.S., and the European community on a wide range of issues. This new volume not only reviews some of the major trends in trade and development policy during the 1980s, but also brings together ten essays on different disputatious trade and development issues. Focusing on the steel, copper, tropical, bauxite-aluminum, and textile, sectors, the author provides an in-depth examination of the areas where trade has been most sharply debated. On the development side, a range of issues are addressed: trade-related problems surrounding South-South relations, prospects for foreign direct investment, regulation of the pharmaceutical industry, and European trade preference schemes.THEODORE R. MALLOCH is a Congressional Fellow in the Foreign Relations Committee of the U.S. Senate.

Preface
Overview of Trends in the 1980s
Trade ProblemsRenegotiating the Multi-Fiber Arrangement: North Versus South Again
Tropical Timber: New-Styled Commodity Agreement?
Lome III: To Be or Not to Be? LDC Steel Production and Capacity: Past Growth and Future Trends
Copper Prices, Consumption, and Production: An Analysis of Import Restrictions
Bauxite-Aluminum: Changing Production, Jamaica and National Security
Development Issues
The North-South Dialogue Reconsidered
Foreign Direct Investment Flows to the LDCs
LDC Criticism of the Pharmaceutical Industry in the UN Forums
South-South Trade: A Growing Phenomenon
Select Bibliography
Index