Since the establishment of UNCTAD in 1964 as a permanent organisation for the promotion of the developing countries' trade and development interests, the substantive issues and problems have remained more or less the same. Dr. Ezenwe analyses the reasons why a yawning gap exists between...

For the past ten years or so the economy of Ghana has been under severe strains. The domestic economic scene has been characterised by stagnation of production, by falling real per capita income, by ever growing inflationary pressures and by rising level of unemployment. On the external front,...