In This Review

Economic Stabilization in Developing Countries
Economic Stabilization in Developing Countries
Edited by William R. Cline and Sidney Weintraub
Brookings, 1981, 517 pp
World Inflation and the Developing Countries
World Inflation and the Developing Countries
By William R. Cline and others
Brookings, 1981, 266 pp

These two sophisticated and clearly written volumes throw a good deal of light on how developing countries have responded to inflation and what are the real effects of the process. Balance-of-payment difficulties seem to be easier to deal with than domestic inflation. And, for unexplained reasons, Asian countries seem to do better than the others in controlling inflation.

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