Cover -- Rich and Poor Countries: Consequences of International Economic Disorder -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Terminology -- Preface -- PART I Perspectives -- 1 Introduction: The Current Economic Crisis and the Developing World -- The New International Economic Order -- Inequities and Inequalities between Countries -- Inequities and Inequalities within Countries -- Summary and Conclusions -- Note -- 2 The International Economy -- A World View of the Development Process -- Structural Change in the World Economy -- The Core of The Problem: Technology -- Notes -- 3 The Poor Countries -- The Impact of the Recession -- The Economic Structure of the Poor Countries: Unity in Diversity -- The Development Process -- Development Strategy: National and International -- Notes -- PART II Trade -- 4 Trade and Development -- Trade and Growth -- Trade, Employment and Income Distribution -- Developing Countries: Trade Patterns -- Notes -- 5 Trade Policies of the Rich Countries -- The International Trade System -- Trade in Primary Commodities -- Trade in Manufactures -- Future Trade Prospects -- Notes -- 6 Trade Strategy -- Has Import Substitution Failed? -- Is Export Orientation Possible? -- Measures to Stimulate North-South Trade -- South-South Trade -- The Impact of UNCTAD -- A Trade Policy for the Third World -- Appendix: The Rate of Effective Protection in the LDCs -- Notes -- PART III International Finance -- 7 Aid and Development -- Aid, Trade and the Widening Gap -- Aid Defined and Measured -- Aid Allocation Criteria -- Scope of Aid -- Wider Aid Concepts -- Bilateral versus Multilateral Aid -- Hard versus Soft Aid -- Project Aid and Programme Aid -- Tied Aid -- Notes -- 8 Aid: Trends -- The Volume of Aid and its Distribution -- The Burden of Aid: The Recipients' Dilemma -- Food Aid -- Future of Aid: Aid Reform -- Notes.

9 The Debt Crisis -- A Debt Profile of the Third World -- The Genesis of the Debt Crisis -- Patterns of Adjustment and the Impact of the Debt Crisis -- Debt Management Reform Proposals -- Notes -- 10 The Multinational Corporation in the Developing Countries -- Colonial Private Investment -- Modern Foreign Private Investment -- Multinational Corporations and the LDCs -- The Multinational Corporation and Technology Transfer -- Government Policy and Multinationals in South Korea: A Case Study -- Appendix: Third World multinationals -- Notes -- 11 The International Financial System and the Developing Countries -- The Developing Countries in the Bretton Woods Era -- The Poor Countries in a Regime of Floating Exchange Rates -- Development Requirements and the New System -- Notes -- PART IV An Overview -- 12 Forty Years of Changing Thought on Development Problems -- Notes -- Statistical Appendix -- Index.