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The book offers a unified treatment of the theory, econometric modeling, and policy evaluation of international commodity trade, and it brings together recent theories of the structure of trade and advances in applied econometrics. Although considerable progress has recently been made in identifying the major determinants of trade, the analyses published in the international trade literature have been almost wholly devoted to the exports of industrialized counties. In this book recent theories of the structure of trade, and advances in applied econometrics, are brought together to provide a unified treatment of trade in the major exports of the developing countries. The book goes beyond mere description of old and new policy issues and of modeling methodologies, and offers a rigorous treatment of the nature and structure of the key relationships governing international commodity trade. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.