Politics of International Economic Relations

The book deals not only with some concrete problems that India faces in her attempt to speed up economic growth with a view to eradicating poverty, ensuring social justice and finding a rightful place in the comity of nations but also with some of the most important features of the inter national economic order that impinge on this attempt...

Part one of the book discusses diver gent perspectives of the rich and the poor countries bearing on the defini tion and structuration of the inter national economic order. Part two focusses on such issues as life style, energy and development planning and arms transfers and draw their impli cations for economic development in the Third World countries, on the one hand, and the character of interna tional economic order, on the other. Part three deals with the impact of the oil crises of a decade ago discusses its implications for North-South rela. tionship. Also, the prospect for econo mic cooperation in the Indian region receives a close look in this part. In part four, specific problem areas energy, oil, foreign aid and develop ment of technology that have a direct bearing of speedier economic development of India receive closer attention.

The present book is a departure from the trodden path of partitioning a totality into manageable segments and taking each of these segments for close analysis and discussion. Instead, it locates the development problems of India in a wider context and high lights the way the two interact and influence each other.