Growth, commodity prices, inflation and the distribution of income

Prebisch (1950) and Singer (1950) argue that the structure of the world economy leads to long-run deterioration in the net barter terms of trade for primary commodity producers in developing countries in their trade with manufacturers in industrialized countries. The ?Prebisch-Singer hypothesis? is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloch, Harry
Format: Working Paper
Published: School of Economics and Finance, Curtin Business School 2005
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32096