Trade and poverty when the Third World fell behind /

Williamson, Jeffrey G., 1935-

Trade and poverty when the Third World fell behind / [electronic resource] : Jeffrey G. Williamson. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011. - xi, 301 p. : ill.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780262295727 (electronic bk.)




Industries--History.--Developing countries
Deindustrialization--History.--Developing countries
Poverty--History.--Developing countries


Developing countries--Commerce--History.
Developing countries--Economic conditions--Regional disparities.


Electronic books.

HC59.7 / .W536 2011

338.9009172/4