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Trade and poverty [electronic resource] : when the Third World fell behind /

by Williamson, Jeffrey G; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011Description: xi, 301 p. : ill.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): Industries -- Developing countries -- History | Deindustrialization -- Developing countries -- History | Poverty -- Developing countries -- History | Developing countries -- Commerce -- History | Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Regional disparities | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
When the Third World fell behind -- The first global century up to 1913 -- Biggest Third World terms of trade boom ever? -- The economics of Third World growth engines and dutch diseases -- Measuring third world de-industrialization and Dutch disease -- An Asian de-industrialization illustration : an Indian paradox? -- A Middle East de-industrialization illustration : Ottoman problems -- A Latin American de-industrialization illustration : Mexican exceptionalism -- Rising Third World inequality during the trade boom : did it matter? -- Export price volatility: another drag on Third World growth? -- Tying the knot : the globalization and great divergence connection -- Better late than never : industrialization spreads to the poor periphery -- Policy response : what did they do? What should they have done? -- Morals of the story.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

When the Third World fell behind -- The first global century up to 1913 -- Biggest Third World terms of trade boom ever? -- The economics of Third World growth engines and dutch diseases -- Measuring third world de-industrialization and Dutch disease -- An Asian de-industrialization illustration : an Indian paradox? -- A Middle East de-industrialization illustration : Ottoman problems -- A Latin American de-industrialization illustration : Mexican exceptionalism -- Rising Third World inequality during the trade boom : did it matter? -- Export price volatility: another drag on Third World growth? -- Tying the knot : the globalization and great divergence connection -- Better late than never : industrialization spreads to the poor periphery -- Policy response : what did they do? What should they have done? -- Morals of the story.

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