Trade and Employment in Developing Countries (Volume 1-3)

Krueger, A. O. et al (eds)

ISBN 10: 0226454924 / ISBN 13: 9780226454924

Published by University Of Chicago Press, 1983

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Volume 1-3. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1850grams, ISBN:0226454924.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trade and Employment in Developing Countries (Volume 1-3)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226454924
• ISBN 13: 9780226454924
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 1850 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics

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Synopsis

This first book of a three-volume study examines the way trade policies in developing countries affect the level and composition of employment. There is special emphasis on the effects of import substitution policies that attempt to make a country self-sufficient by producing local substitutes for imports, as compared with policies that further the expansion of imports.

Ten countries are studied: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, the Ivory Coast, Pakistan, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia, and Uruguay. The contributors to the volume analyze the link between trade strategies and employment within a common framework, and the analyses of trade policy include the level and structure of protection, the relation of trade policy to labor demand, the labor intensiveness of trade, and the extent of distortions in factor markets and their effects on trade.

About the Authors

Anne O. Krueger is the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

Anne O. Krueger, director of this study, is professor of economics at the University of Minnesota and joint director of the NBER study Foreign Trade Regimes and Economic Development.