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LONG‐TERM COPPER PRODUCTION OPTIONS OF THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Author(s) -
RADETZKI MARIAN
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
natural resources forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.646
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1477-8947
pISSN - 0165-0203
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-8947.1977.tb00053.x
Subject(s) - developing country , earnings , production (economics) , copper , foreign exchange , term (time) , economics , natural resource economics , business , development economics , economic growth , monetary economics , macroeconomics , chemistry , finance , physics , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics
After petroleum, copper is the most important foreign exchange earner of the developing countries. Supply of copper from developing nations is heavily concentrated in six countries. The production strategies of these countries can, therefore, have a significant impact on world copper trends as well as on their own copper earnings. The author, former Chief Economist of CIPEC, examines the implications of two alternative growth paths for long‐term copper production in these countries.