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Rise and demise of commodity agreements : an investigation into the breakdown of international commodity agreements /
A detailed examination is provided of the circumstances which led to the negotiation of each of the international commodity agreements with economic provision included since the end of World War II. How such agreements operated and the causes for difficulties in their implementation and the reasons...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, England :
Woodhead Pub.,
1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover; Rise and Demise of Commodity Aggreements: An Investigation into the Breakdown of International Commodity Agreements; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Tables; Foreword; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Conventions used in this book; CHAPTER ONE. The pre-UNCTAD period; Was Kindleberger right?; What are 'commodity agreements'?; History of commodity agreements to 1945; The post-World War II situation and the International Conference on Trade and Employment; The Havana Charter; From Havana to the UNCTAD; Conclusion; Sources; CHAPTER TWO. Developments since 1964.
- Prebisch's Report to the 1964 UN Conference on Trade and DevelopmentUNCTAD's role in fostering the negotiation of commodity agreements; The heyday of commodity agreements; The issue of price indexation; Other developments from 1964 to 1985; The general situation after 1985; Conclusion; Sources; CHAPTER THREE. Factors bearing on the birth and life of commodity agreements; Economic and political background; Political factors affecting commodity agreements; Private sector attitudes affecting commodity agreements; Sources; CHAPTER FOUR. Coffee; Main features of the international trade.
- Efforts to retain supplies before World War IIThe Inter-American Coffee Agreement of 1940; The situation after 1945: from scarcity to overproduction; Washington antics: the coffee investigations of 1949 and 1954; The Latin Americans try to deal with the problem; The African producers join the Latin Americans; US policy under President Kennedy; The Coffee Study Group approves the negotiation of an international agreement; The UN Coffee Conference: the first International Coffee Agreement, 1962; An evaluation of the 1962 ICA; The International Coffee Agreement, 1968.
- An evaluation of the 1968 AgreementExtension of the 1968 ICA; negotiation of the 1976 Agreement; Operation of the 1976 ICA; The International Coffee Agreement, 1983; Operation of the 1983 Agreement and the collapse of the 1989 negotiations; What effect will the Uruguay Round have?; Conclusion; Sources; CHAPTER FIVE. Sugar; Main features of the international trade; International initiatives before 1945; Structure of the international market in the early 1950s; the US Sugar Act; The International Sugar Agreement of 1953 and its 1956 revision; The International Sugar Agreement of 1958.
- Successive extensions of the 1958 AgreementThe US market; The International Sugar Agreement of 1968; Operation of the 1968 Agreement; The Sugar Conference of 1973; End of the Sugar Act; the EEC sugar policy; establishment of Geplacea; Negotiation of the 1977 ISA; Analysis of the International Sugar Agreement, 1977; Operation of the 1977 Agreement; Developments in the EEC, the United States and Japan; The International Sugar Agreement, 1984; The International Sugar Agreements of 1987 and 1992; What effect will the Uruguay Round have?; Conclusion; Sources; CHAPTER SIX. Cocoa.