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Trade and Development Report 1997
Globalization, Distribution and Growth
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Foreword, contents, explanatory notes, abbreviations
Overview
Part One - Global Trends
Chapter I
The World Economy: Performance and Prospects
A. Overall trends
B. Theworld economy: growth and imbalances
C. Short-term outlook and uncertainties

Chapter II
International Financial Markets and the External Debt of Developing Countries
A. Recent trends in private external financing
B. Capital flows and policy responses in selected developing countries
C. The terms of export credits and trade financing arrangements
D. Renegotiation and reduction of bank debt
E. Official debt

Annex to Part 1

Part Two
Globalization, Distribution and Growth
Chapter I
Issues at Stake
Chapter II
Globalization and Economic Convergence
A. Introduction
B. Globalization and convergence
C. Lessons from the 19th century
D. Contemporary convergence trends
E. Trade, growth and convergence
F. Capital mobility, growth and convergence

Chapter III
Income Inequality and Development
A. Introduction
B. Personal
C. Inter-country differences in income inequality
D. Surplus labour, growth and income inequality
E. Conclusions

Annex to Chapter 3

Chapter IV
Liberalization, Integration and Distribution
A. Introduction
B. Trade liberalization and wage inequality
C. Integration and distribution between labour and capital
D. Agricultural price reforms
E. Debt, finance and distribution
F. Conclusions
Chapter V
Income Distribution, Capital Accumulation and Growth
A. Introduction
B. The political economy of distribution and growth
C. Distribution, education and skill acquisition
1. Distribution and education
2. Employment, investment and skill acquisition
D. Personal and functional income distribution and accumulation
A. Profits and accumulation
1. Evidence from industrial countries
2. Corporate savings in developing countries
3. Profits, savings and distribution
Notes

Chapter VI
Promoting Investment: Some Lessons From East Asia
A. Introduction
B. Animating the investment-profits nexus
C. Control over luxury consumption, trade and industrialization
D. Profit-related pay, distribution and accumulation

selected publications

Back to Trade and Development Reports (various years)

UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics: the complete series

World Investment Reports (WIR)
World Investment Reports (selected statistics)
Digital library of UNCTAD, CD-Roms and on-line data sources
UNCTAD X: documents and papers
UNCTAD investment brief, No. 1, 2007, Foreign direct investment surged again in 2006 (UNCTAD/ITE/IIA/MISC/2007/2)
01/02/07, 2 Pages, 58 Kb
Transport Newsletter, No. 34, Fourth Quarter 2006 (UNCTAD/SDTE/TLB/2006/5)
31/01/07, 21 Pages, 466 Kb
World economic situation and prospects 2007 (WESP/2007)
Sales no.: E.07.II.C.2
01/01/07, 177 Pages, 1913 Kb
UNCTAD investment brief BRIEF, No. 5, 2006, Top TNCs present in 40 host countries on average (UNCTAD/WEB/ITE/IIA/2006/10)
01/12/06, 2 Pages, 55 Kb