This second volume of a two-volume work gathers together 23 detailed case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, presenting the background causes, descriptions, results, and implications of all the recent economic upheavals in the developing world.
1. One Decade of External Coffee Shocks in Colombia, 1975-85,Santiago Montenegro 2. Costa Rica: Mismanagement of the Coffee Boom,Claudio Gonzalez-Vega 3. Bolivia's Tin and National Gas Crises of 1985-89,Juan Antonio Morales 4. Dealing with Negative Oil Shocks: The Venezuelan Experience in the 1980s,Ricardo Hausman 5. The Mexican Oil Boom, 1977-85,Michael Gavin 6. Thailand: Trade Shocks and Domestic Responses,Peter G. Warr and Soonthorn Chaiindeepum 7. Temporary Trade Shocks, Consumption Smoothing, and Economic Adjustment: Sri Lanka, 1973-76,Sisira Jasuriya 8. The Impact of Temporary Trade Shocks on an Economy in Disequilibrium: The Philippines, 1985-89,Raul Fabella and Sisira Jayasuriya 9. The Remittance Boom in Bangladesh, 1978-86,Jean-Paul Azam and Quazi Shahabuddin 10. An Evaluation of the 197985 Petroleum Boom in Malaysia,David Greenaway and Subramariam S. Pillay 11. Indonesia: Trade Shocks and Construction Booms Index