Trade prospects for developing countries / Bela A. Balassa.

Part I. Trade patterns in less developed areas -- 1. Introduction, 3 -- 2. Economic growth in developed countries, 14 -- 3. The future of exports from developing countries, 43 -- 4. Import requirements of less developed areas and the trade gap, 67 -- 5. The balance of current account transactions and policy alternatives for a balanced expansion of world trade, 99 -- Part II. Prospects for individual commodities -- 6. Trade projections for temperate zone foods, 131 -- 7. Trade projections for competing tropical foods, 161 -- 8. Trade projections for agricultural raw materials, 218 -- 9. Trade projections for agricultural raw materials, 218 -- 10. Trade projections for fuels, 267 -- 11. Trade projections for nonfuel minerals and metals, 291 -- 12. Trade projections for manufactured goods, 329 -- Appendix to chapter 1. Methodological problems in forecasting international trade, 341 -- Appendix tables, 368 -- Index, 447.