Commodities, Governance and Economic Development under Globalization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxv

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2. Commodities, Trade and Governance: Reflections on Alfred Maizels’ Life, Work and Legacy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Commodities, Cooperation and World Economic Development: The Mission of Alfred Maizels (1917–2006)

      • John Toye

      Pages 3-17

   3. Poverty, Power and Global Economic Governance

      • Gerry Helleiner

      Pages 19-36

3. Commodities and the Global Economy in the Twenty-First Century

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Issues and Challenges for Commodity Markets in the Global Economy: An Overview

      • Machiko Nissanke

      Pages 39-63

   3. Commodity Market Structures, Evolving Governance and Policy Issues

      • Machiko Nissanke

      Pages 65-97

   4. Commodities Still In Crisis?

      • David Sapsford, Stephan Pfaffenzeller, Harry Bloch

      Pages 99-115

   5. Asian Drivers, Commodities and the Terms of Trade

      • Raphael Kaplinsky

      Pages 117-138

   6. Uncertain Prospects of Commodity-Dependent Developing Countries

      • Alice Sindzingre

      Pages 139-162

4. Case Studies of Cotton and Copper

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Cotton Crises in Francophone Africa: Fatality or Challenge for Multidimensional Cooperation?

      • Michel Fok

      Pages 165-220

   3. Exchange Rate Management for Commodity-Dependent Countries: A Zambian Case Study

      • Elva Bova

      Pages 221-246

5. Finance and Governance under Globalization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247

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   2. A Role for Compensatory Finance in the 21st Century after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis

      • Adrian Hewitt

      Pages 249-268

   3. ‘The Bottom Billion’: A Critique and Alternative View

      • Charles Gore

      Pages 269-300

   4. Global Rules and Markets: Constraints on Policy Autonomy in Developing Countries

      • Yilmaz Akyüz

      Pages 301-336

6. Back Matter

   Pages 337-368

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Alfred Maizels' work on commodity trade and prices documented trends in a major area of international economic relations. This book elaborates the ideas in the tradition of Maizels' contributons, and discusses and extends these theories in relation to current problems.

• Developing Countries
• development
• Development Finance
• Economic Development

• School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK

  Machiko Nissanke

• UNU-WIDER, Japan

  George Mavrotas

MACHIKO NISSANKE is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. She previously worked at Birkbeck College, University College London and the University of Oxford, and was also Research Fellow of Nuffield College and the Overseas Development Institute. She has published numerous books and journal articles in financial and international economics, and has served many international organizations as advisor and coordinator of research programmes.
 
GEORGE MAVROTAS is the Chief Economist of the Global Development Network. Previously he was a fellow and project director at UNU-WIDER and on the economics faculties of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. He has published extensively in journals and books on development economics and development finance, including Commodity Supply Management by Producing Countries (Oxford University Press), Advancing Development: Core Themes in Global Economics, and Development Finance in the Global Economy: The Road Ahead and Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction, all with Palgrave Macmillan.

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