JOHN LOXLEY is Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He lived and worked for many years in Africa. He was Research Manager, National Bank of Commerce, Tanzania 1967-69, Director of the Institute of Finance Management 1972-74 and taught in the Economics Departments of Makerere University (1965-7) and the University of Dar es Salaam (1969-72). He has served as an economic advisor on economic policy to the governments of Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar, Mozambique and the Province of Manitoba. He is the author of Debt and Disorder: External Finance for Development and Ghana: The Long Road to Recovery and co-author of Towards Socialist Planning, Zambia: An Assessment of Zambia's Adjustment Experience and Structural Adjustment in Africa.

• List of Tables List of Acronyms Introduction Global Expansion and Differential Integration: The End of the South? Neo-Conservatism and the Growth of Global Disequilibrium Reordering Global Relations: Threats to the South Alternative Paradigms: Peripheral Views and Views from the Periphery Bibliography Index