International Commodity Policy: A Quantitative Analysis

Part 1 The politics and economics of commodity agreements and compensation: 1. The history and politics of international commodity agreements and compensatory financing. 2. The economics of stabilization, an historical survey. Part 2 Compensatory financing - an economic evaluation of current programmes: 3. The IMF's compensatory financing facility. 4. Commodity-related financial compensation by the European community. 5. Food cereal import facility. Part 2 Commodity arrangements - an economic evaluation of current programmes: 6. The international coffee agreement. 7. The international natural rubber agreement. 8. The international cocoa agreements. 9. Commodity protocols. 10. A comparison and evaluation of the arrangements.