Product Description: Agricultural price policy has been increasingly recognized as vitally important to the economic development of poor countries. Yet what constitutes good policy is highly controversial among policy analysts and policymakers. Although economic theory and techniques do not provide definitive answers that resolve the controversies, they can be used as effective tools to develop insights of great value to policymakers...read more

Product Description: This is the first book to present a clear empirical picture of the international exchange of goods and of the resources that account for the exchanges that occur. It fully articulates the Heckscher-Ohlin theory of international comparative advantage, in which a country's factor endowments (land, labor, capital) play a crucial role in determining trade patterns...read more

Product Description: Since the early 1960s exports of manufactures from developing countries have grown rapidly. Widening gaps between the wages of rich and poor countries, coupled with dramatic declines in transportation costs and increased technological capabilities, led to this growth...read more

Product Description: Book by Johnson, Joseph Thomas