Gorbachev's economic strategy in the Third World

Giovanni Graziani

The author examines Gorbachev's reforms in terms of economic relations with the Third World and presents a statistical analysis of Soviet economic assistance and trade. The book critically evaluates all the statistical data from Soviet and United National sources and presents the changing Soviet attitude toward indebtedness and the growing dissatisfaction expressed by both the Third World and the USSR over the management of Soviet aid. The author notes a contradiction between Gorbachev's strategy and statistical evidence for the first years of his office, but stresses that the recent moves to trade with South Korea and other Asian countries are bound to affect the Soviet geographical pattern of trade. His estimates show the increasing importance of agricultural products and fuels in Soviet imports and of military equipment and fuels in its exports. Particularly interesting is what Graziani calls the "oil imbroglio" a triangular trade pattern in which the USSR has increased its imports of crude oil from the Third World for re-export to the West in order to stabilize its export earnings in hard currencies threatened by falling oil prices. The book concludes that no expansion of Soviet economic ties with the Third World is foreseen in the short run and that eventual Soviet participation in international economic organizations might further entail conflicts with the Third world.

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The author examines Gorbachev's reforms in terms of economic relations with the Third World and presents a statistical analysis of Soviet economic assistance and trade. The book critically evaluates all the statistical data from Soviet and United National sources and presents the changing Soviet attitude toward indebtedness and the growing dissatisfaction expressed by both the Third World and the USSR over the management of Soviet aid. The author notes a contradiction between Gorbachev's strategy and statistical evidence for the first years of his office, but stresses that the recent moves to trade with South Korea and other Asian countries are bound to affect the Soviet geographical pattern of trade. His estimates show the increasing importance of agricultural products and fuels in Soviet imports and of military equipment and fuels in its exports. Particularly interesting is what Graziani calls the "oil imbroglio" a triangular trade pattern in which the USSR has increased its imports of crude oil from the Third World for re-export to the West in order to stabilize its export earnings in hard currencies threatened by falling oil prices. The book concludes that no expansion of Soviet economic ties with the Third World is foreseen in the short run and that eventual Soviet participation in international economic organizations might further entail conflicts with the Third world.

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書名 Gorbachev's economic strategy in the Third World
著作者等 Graziani, Giovanni
シリーズ名 The Washington papers
出版元 Praeger
刊行年月 c1990
ページ数 xx, 116 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0275935396
0275935388
NCID BA10840249
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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