The European Community and the Developing Countries

by Enzo R. Grilli

Overview

This book analyzes and evaluates European Community (EC) trade, aid and industrial policies toward developing countries—their origin, main features, logic, evolution and efficacy. The author describes Europe's development policies as regional in scope, colonial in geographical emphasis and discriminatory in their effects. This incisive reevaluation is particularly timely as it illustrates the different strategies the EC countries might pursue in their relations with the outside world as they progress toward fuller economic integration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521478991
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/30/1994
Series:	Trade and Development
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.91(d)

Table of Contents

List of abbreviations; List of tables; List of figures; 1. European associationism: new beginning or more of the same?; 2. The aid dimension: Europeanisation of development assistance or two track policy?; 3. The Community's aid model: continuation of colonial patterns or new form of cooperation with associated developing countries?; 4. Trade policies towards the associates: the privileges that did not matter; 5. The Southern policies of the EC: keeping the Mediterranean safe for Europe; 6. The periphery of EC reach: trade and cooperation policies with Latin America; 7. EC and Asia: growing further apart; 8. Eastern Europe: the newest development challenge for the Community; 9. EC development policies: retrospect and prospects.

Editorial Reviews

"In this book the information provided is abundant, fair, and lucid. Grilli's conclusions will no doubt lead others to reexamine their own views." Journal of Economic Literature

"Enzo R. Grilli puts the development cooperation activities of 'fortress Europe' under the microscope and subjects them to a comprehensive and critical examination in The European Community and the Developing Countries." Finance and Development

"Enzo Grilli does us a particularly useful service by describing the aid policies and programs of the European Community....There is relatively little written on the aid policies of the EC and certainly no book-length treatment of the quality of this one. Grilli does more than describe the policies of the EC towards the developing countries; he provides a useful analysis of the politics behind those policies." Carol Lancaster, International Economic Insights

"[A] much-needed introduction to EC Associationism...." Choice

"...destined to become a standard reference in the literature on relations between the European Community (EC) and the developing world. Comprehensive in coverage, structured in analysis, and meticulous in detail (both statistical and documentary), it also advances a controversial thesis which is likely to become the centrepiece of policy debate." Ravi Kanbur, Journal of African Economies

"Enzo Grilli's book will be welcomed by students on development courses with a North-South aid and trade dimension, and on European Community courses with an external policy dimension. It updates and widens the coverage provided by existing textbooks of the EC's set of aid and trade policies with developing countries....an invaluable mine of information for a generation of postgraduate students." Christopher Stevens, Development Policy Review

"...a good introduction to the issues... the very comprehensive and up-to-date list of references will be invaluable to researchers in the area." The Economic Journal

"...a useful and highly readable review of EC economic relations with developing countries....Overall, this book is a worthwhile addition to the literature on the EC, and will serve as a valuable reference for researchers interested in EC policies toward LDCs. One can only hope that Grilli's contribution will stimulate others to undertake analysis of many of the phenomena that Grilli systematically lays forth." Anne O. Krueger, Journal of Comparative Economics

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