Professor Nurkse and the Marketing Boards

Gordon Winston

The Pakistan Development Review, 1965, vol. 5, issue 4, 631-637

Abstract: Professor Nurkse presented a compelling case against the price stabilization policies of national marketing boards for primary products based on the fact that these policies may reduce the quantity of foreign revenue accruing to the primary producing country [1]. If they do, they may act to restrict the rate of economic development. To maximize export earnings, he proposed elimination of the marketing boards' function of insulating domestic producers of primary products from demand fluctuations on the world market. These demand fluctuations were considered to be the result of cyclical fluctuations within the advanced countries, hence they were treated in a short-run context.

Date: 1965
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/PDR/1965/Volume4/631-637.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pid:journl:v:5:y:1965:i:4:p:631-637

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The Pakistan Development Review from Pakistan Institute of Development Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Khurram Iqbal ().