The Lomé Convention with its 63 signatory states in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) represents the centre-piece of the EC's development policy. The current agreement, Lomé II, expires on February 28, 1985, and negotiations on Lomé III already began in Luxembourg on October 6,...

The discussion on the significance for development policy of the Stabex system, which gained additional impetus as a result of the financing problems observed for the first time in 1981, has up to now suffered from a lack of empirical analysis of the scheme's effects. The following article...

The Convention of Lomé anticipates several basic elements of a possible new international economic order. This relates particularly to the export earnings stabilisation system "Stabex" whose merits and deficiencies after the first two years of application are discussed in the following...

The developing countries regard the "Common Fund" for the financing of the Integrated Programme for Commodities as the symbol of a new and more equitable International Economic Order. In the industrialized countries, on the other side, many people see in it a symbol of the attempt to replace the...

Im allgemeinen wird davon ausgegangen, dass die Exporterlösinstabilität von Entwicklungsländern ihre wirtschaftliche Entwicklung beeinträchtige und dass deshalb ihre Exporterlöse zu stabilisieren seien. In der Arbeit wird kritisch analysiert, inwieweit Grundlagen für eine rationale Politik...

The successful completion of negotiations on the Common Fund has not yet led to the hoped-for break-through for any of the commodity agreements belonging to the Integrated Programme for Commodities (IPC). Opposition, particularly by the industrialised countries, but also by individual producer...

After five years of tough negotiations at numerous conferences about an integrated Programme for Commodities (IPC) the participating countries agreed in March 1979 on basic and operational regulations for the key instrument of this programme, a Common Fund. In its present version it is closely...