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National Policies towards Commodity Exports

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Latin America and the New International Economic Order

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The purpose of this essay is to analyse the alternative policies which less developed countries might adopt at a national level with regard to their commodity export sectors, in matters closely connected with the attempt to establish a new international economic order (NIEO). The policies in question relate principally to the problem of the instability of primary product exports.

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  1. CIEPLAN, Chile

    Ricardo Ffrench-Davis  & Ernesto Tironi (Senior Researchers) &  (Senior Researchers)

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© 1982 Ricardo Ffrench-Davis and Ernesto Tironi

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Tironi, E. (1982). National Policies towards Commodity Exports. In: Ffrench-Davis, R., Tironi, E. (eds) Latin America and the New International Economic Order. St Antony’s / Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05694-1_8

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