Economic North–South Divide

Kunibert Raffer, formerly Professor, Department of Economics, University of Vienna, Austria and the late H.W. Singer, formerly Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

• Contents: Preface 1. Six Decades of Economic and Social Development Policies 2. Beyond Terms of Trade: Convergence, Divergence, and (Un)Creative Destruction 3. The Evolution of Development Thinking 4. The Neoliberal Tide of the ‘Washington Consensus’ 5. Aid to Development and the Bipolar World 6. ODA after the Cold War: Less Money at Tougher Conditions 7. Lomé: Reflecting North–South Relations since Colonial Times 8. Oil: Temporarily a Special Case 9. The Asian Tigers: What do they Prove? 10. The Debt Crisis: Historical Roots and ‘Debt Management’ During the 1980s 11. Too Little, Too Slowly: Dragging the Debt Problem into the Third Millennium 12. The WTO – Tilting Trade Rules Further Against the South 13. Textiles and Apparel: Double Standards of Adjustment and Transition 14. Towards a More Equal World Order Bibliography Index

'This is a distinguished book written by two distinguished analysts of, and commentators on, the outcomes and processes that have dominated the evolution of the global economic order over the last sixty years.'