Trade and Employment in Developing Countries, Volume 1: Individual Studies

by National Bureau of Economic Research

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226454924
• ISBN13: 9780226454924
• Release Date: November 1980
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 558 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"