This paper analyses the trends in the relative significance of small states in world trade, and looks at the reasons for their marginalisation. It advocates that dependence on primary products and increasing globalisation explain much of the trend in the declining significance of small states, but that there are four other key factors: the structure of the export trade; the unfavourable geographical positions of many small states; their lack of financial resources; the global trade regime under the WTO.
- ISBN10 0850927730
- ISBN13 9780850927733
- Publish Date 1 March 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 March 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format Paperback
- Pages 72
- Language English