| Shrnutí: | Fourteen papers, originally presented at a colloquium held in Ottawa in June 1994, honor the work of development economist Gerald Helleiner and commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Papers discuss the life and work of Helleiner; provide a reformer's agenda for the framework of development cooperation; advocate a "human-centered" development paradigm in which human welfare, rather than market efficiency or commodity output, is the end of economic activity; critique the World Bank near the turn of the century; assess the IMF's efforts in the low-income countries; discuss the myth of declining aid; address issues of international capital markets, the debt crisis, and development; consider whether transnational corporations will be the new custodians of development; provide a Latin American perspective on the effects of the current global economic system on LDCs; test the hypothesis that the economic liberalization of the 1980s served to worsen income distribution; survey the fortunes of the developing countries in the multilateral trading system after the Uruguay Round; discuss commodity markets, institutional support measures, and challenges for exporting countries; consider new prospects for Latin American development; and explore the experiences of sub-Saharan Africa under various policy reforms since 1980 and the need for genuine local "ownership" of policy reforms. Culpeper is with the North-South Institute in Ottawa. Berry is at the University of Toronto. Stewart is at the University of Oxford. Bibliography of Helleiner's publications; index.
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