Development institutions are currently revising their traditional positions on the question of adequate trade policies for developing countries. Against this background the following article takes stock of the degree to which developing countries have become integrated into the world economy and...

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...