Much of the literature on strategic trade policy deals with industries and sectors characterized by international rivalry for market shares, and the struggle to capture “rents” over and above normal factor rewards. The present paper explores the validity and implications of strategic trade...

Books reviewed in this article: S. N. Afriat - The Market. Equilibrium, Stability, Mythology. Hazel Bateman, Geoffrey Kingston and John Piggott - Forced Saving: Mandating Private Retirement Incomes. Jagdish Bhagwati (ed.) - Going Alone - The Case for Relaxed Reciprocity in Freeing Trade. Boeri...

The paper explores the short and the long run prospects of in-tegrating the transitional economies of Eastern Europe into the world trading system. This is attempted in a quantitative framework that considers three broad, non-competing alternative scenarios that are feasible. The quantitative...

Discussions on the development problems of commodity producing countries have been dominated by proposals for stabilizing world prices of commodities, in particular via the establishment of a "Common Fund" within the framework of UNCTAD’s Integrated Program for Commodities. Professor Ahmad...