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Up the Down Escalator: Development and the International Economy - A Jamaican Case Study [Hardcover]

Michael Manley (Author)


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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Howard University Press (February 1983)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0882581120
  • ISBN-13: 978-0882581125
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,889,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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We begin with the story of Jamaica and bauxite because, more than anything else, this has been the engine expected to drive our escalator, in recent times. Read the first page
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emergency production plan, bauxite lands, bauxite levy, bauxite workers, bauxite companies, foreign exchange support, bauxite industry, alumina plant, production levy, alumina production, international inflation, manufacturing subsectors, bauxite production, bauxite mined, bauxite deposits, foreign content, restrictive business practices, world economic situation, bank consultant, dual exchange rate, extended fund facility, levy rate, new international economic order, financing facility, primary aluminum
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Third World, United States, United Nations, International Monetary Fund, World War, Development Report, Jamaica Bauxite Institute, Bank of Jamaica, New York, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, West Germany, General Assembly, International Bauxite Association, Saudi Arabia, Compensatory Financing Facility, Bretton Woods, People's National Party, Aluminum Company of America, Costa Rica, European Economic Community, Latin America, Alumina Jamaica Limited, Annual Report, Dominican Republic
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