Table of Contents

1. One Decade of External Coffee Shocks in Colombia, 1975-85, Santiago Montenegro 2. Costa Rica: Mismanagement of the Coffee Boom, Claudio Gonzalez-Vega 3. Bolivia's Tin and National Gas Crises of 1985-89, Juan Antonio Morales 4. Dealing with Negative Oil Shocks: The Venezuelan Experience in the 1980s, Ricardo Hausman 5. The Mexican Oil Boom, 1977-85, Michael Gavin 6. Thailand: Trade Shocks and Domestic Responses, Peter G. Warr and Soonthorn Chaiindeepum 7. Temporary Trade Shocks, Consumption Smoothing, and Economic Adjustment: Sri Lanka, 1973-76, Sisira Jasuriya 8. The Impact of Temporary Trade Shocks on an Economy in Disequilibrium: The Philippines, 1985-89, Raul Fabella and Sisira Jayasuriya 9. The Remittance Boom in Bangladesh, 1978-86, Jean-Paul Azam and Quazi Shahabuddin 10. An Evaluation of the 197985 Petroleum Boom in Malaysia, David Greenaway and Subramariam S. Pillay 11. Indonesia: Trade Shocks and Construction Booms Index