On the Multinationals

Deepak Lal

Development Policy Review, 1978, vol. A11, issue 2, 79-128

Abstract: Book reviewed in this article: The International Operations of National Firms: A Study of Direct Foreign Investment. By S. H. Hymer. Storm Over the Multinationals–The Real Issues. By Raymond Vemon. The Financing of Economic Development. Edited by W. T. Newlyn. The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro. By J. E. Perlman. Surplus Labour and the City: A study of Bombay. By H. and V. Joshi. Sao Paulo: Urban Development and Employment. By K. Schaefer. African Metropolis: Nairobi's Self‐Help City. By A. Hake. The flow of city studies is gathering pace. From a few pioneering books in the 1960s – notably The City of Ibadan– there are now studies of Accra, Jakarta, Port Harcourt and some others. Each of the books reviewed here deals with a different city – Rio de Janeiro, Bombay, Sao. Growth and Development: A Physical Output and Development Strategy. By S. S. Park. From Prebisch– Singer to Emmanuel: The Simple Analytics of Unequal Exchange. By Edmar L. Bacha. The Kuznets Curve and Beyond: Growth and Changes in Inequalities. By Edmar L. Bacha. The International Allocation of Economic Activity; Proceedings of a Nobel Symposium held at Stockholm. Edited by Bertil Ohlin, Per‐Ove Hesselborn, Per Magnus Wijkman. Rangeland Management and Ecology in East Africa. Edited by D. J. Pratt and M. D. Perceptions of Development. Edited by Sandra Wallman. An Introduction to the ScKiology of Rural Development. By Norman Long. Developing Countries in the GATT System. By Sidney Golt. Foreign Trade and International Development. By Anindya K. Bhattacharya. Consultancy for Small Businesses: The Concept; Training the Consultants. By Malcolm Harper. The OPEC Market to 1985. By Farid Abolfathy, Gary Kenyon, Margaret Daly Hayes, Leo A. Hazlewood, Robert Crain. The Wealth of Some Nations, By Malcolm Caldwell. The Sustainable Society. Edited by Dennis Clark Pirages. Housing for Low‐income Families: Economics and Policy in the Developing World. By Orville F. Grimes Jr. World Development Report, 1978. Washington D.C. The International Monetary Fund 1966–1971, The System under Stress. Vol. I: Narrative. By M. de Vries. Vol. II: Documents. Edited by M. de Vries.

Date: 1978
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