Processing of raw materials by the producer countries themselves has frequently been recommended as an appropriate way for developing countries to increase their domestic value added and achieve positive employment effects. As against that, the following article suggests that Third World...

The open seas have recently become recognized as a major resource on which the world is likely to grow increasingly dependent in the years ahead. With regard to their exploitation questions of efficiency and equity have arisen that are being fought out primarily within the UN Conference on the...

The Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea meets in New York from August 21 to September 15, 1978, for the second half of its Seventh Session. At its earlier meetings the Conference had not succeeded in mapping out a new international maritime law. The present article analyses the state of...