Foreign Exchange Constraints to Trade and Development

Foreign Exchange Constraints to Trade and Development
Author: Philip Chase Abbott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1984
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Extract: Many less developed countries (LDC's), facing huge trade deficits and shortages of foreign exchange, reduced their agricultural imports over the past few years from the United States and others. Unless cash-short LDC's increase their exports and obtain food and financial aid, agricultural imports by LDC's will grow much more slowly in the next decade than in the last. While many LDC's face long-term problems, others appear to be in short-term liquidity crises; if their export growth resumes, so will their agricultural imports. China, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, and India are key to world cereal trade. Those projections are based on a two-gap model applied to 31 LDC's.

Handbook of Financial Engineering

Handbook of Financial Engineering
Author: Constantin Zopounidis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2010-07-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0387766820

This comprehensive handbook discusses the most recent advances within the field of financial engineering, focusing not only on the description of the existing areas in financial engineering research, but also on the new methodologies that have been developed for modeling and addressing financial engineering problems. The book is intended for financial engineers, researchers, applied mathematicians, and graduate students interested in real-world applications to financial engineering.

Devaluation and Pricing Decisions

Devaluation and Pricing Decisions
Author: Douglas Hague
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2022-02-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000534146

First published in 1974, Devaluation and Pricing Decisions is based on case studies of the export pricing decisions made by nineteen major British companies after the 1967 devaluation.The aim was to look in detail at the decisions that major British firms took after devaluation and to see how they had responded to this major change in government policy. This book shows how far the firms had anticipated the devaluation; what company objectives were at that time and what changes in these objectives, or in pricing and marketing policies, were made to take advantage of new opportunities for exporting and for import substitution. The researchers also examined the actual process of decision making to find what information was available to the decision makers and how they used it. The book is directed to businessmen taking decisions on export prices and marketing in the world of today where foreign exchange rates change frequently. It is also directed towards those responsible for shaping national economic policy. For students of economics, it represents a study showing, in considerable detail, how a number of businesses responded to the 1967 devaluation.