Amazon.com description: Product Description: The book attempts to assist policy makers in developing countries to cope with the challenges they face during the rest of the century and beyond. For this purpose, it provides information on the experience of developing, developed and socialist countries. The work is divided into seven parts which examine the effects of alternative development strategies in the developing countries and raise the question of whether external constraints would limit choices among these strategies. The essays also look at agriculture and its role in the growth process of developing countries and analyzes issues of privatization and the experience of Mexico, also evaluating the reform effects of two socialist countries, Hungary and China. The final section reviews issues relating to trade and trade negotiations between developed and developing countries.