IMF Staff papers : Volume 4 No. 2.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.

Series:

IMF Staff Papers; IMF Staff Papers No 1955/001

IMF Staff Papers

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 pages)

Other Title:

IMF Staff papers

Staff Papers Vol 4 No 2

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1955.

Summary:

This paper reviews the impact of liberalization of intra-European trade in the framework of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC). Commercial relations have been most intensive between the industrialized countries of Western Europe, which have carried on a considerable trade with each other both in manufactured products and in such industrial raw materials as they produce in substantial quantities. With the depression of the thirties, international trade declined sharply, and normal trade relations between European countries were disrupted by the widespread tendency to protect domestic markets. OEEC initiatives for the progressive achievement of a single market were taken in various fields. Early experience, however, showed that it would be premature to attempt to promote economic integration through close and effective international planning; and since that time, coordinated action relating to internal financial stability, investments, manpower, has been tentative and fragmentary.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781463990879

1463990871

9781475500264

1475500262