Interdependence, Disequilibrium and Growth: Reflections on the Political Economy of North-South Relations at the Turn of the Century

by John Loxley

Overview

Loxley examines the impact of globalization on different countries and regions. Changing patterns of trade, industrialization, debt, aid and other financial flows are analysed as is the debate about structural adjustment programs. Four recent developments likely to have major implications for North-South relations are identified; efforts to reduce the US deficit; the emergence of regional trading blocs; the implementation of the Uruguay Round of GATT; and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Finally, the likely impact on North-South relations of pursuing alternative paradigms to economic growth is examined.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349145768
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Series:	International Political Economy Series
Edition description:	1st ed. 1998
Pages:	185
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

JOHN LOXLEY is Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He lived and worked for many years in Africa. He was Research Manager, National Bank of Commerce, Tanzania 1967-69, Director of the Institute of Finance Management 1972-74 and taught in the Economics Departments of Makerere University (1965-7) and the University of Dar es Salaam (1969-72). He has served as an economic advisor on economic policy to the governments of Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar, Mozambique and the Province of Manitoba. He is the author of Debt and Disorder: External Finance for Development and Ghana: The Long Road to Recovery and co-author of Towards Socialist Planning, Zambia: An Assessment of Zambia's Adjustment Experience and Structural Adjustment in Africa.

Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Acronyms Introduction Global Expansion and Differential Integration: The End of the South? Neo-Conservatism and the Growth of Global Disequilibrium Reordering Global Relations: Threats to the South Alternative Paradigms: Peripheral Views and Views from the Periphery Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

Four contemporary developments with potentially important implications for North-South relations are examined, with material on attempts to deal with US fiscal and external deficits, the emergence of three regional trading blocs, the implementation of the Uruguay Round of GATT, and the collapse of the USSR and its satellites. A final chapter examines approaches to development which do not rely on growth and assesses their impact on North-South relations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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